She-changers in Silicon Valley

Beyond the demands of day-to-day dealings, though, Ms Guthrie's thesis is that women face unique challenges at the workplace

Alpha Girls:The Women 
 

Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a LifeTime

Julian Guthrie

Hachette

Rs 599, 289 pages

The rise of Silicon Valley as the pre-eminent technological mecca of our time is not unaccompanied by problems. There is the concentration of power in the hands of a few companies, the nefarious ways in which social media is being abused, and the lack of regulatory oversight that has led to this state of affairs coming into play.

But there is another aspect of the technological industry that has been commented on in recent years: The lack