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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Marçal, Katrine, author.     Subjects     Feminist economics.     Women -- Economic conditions.     Sex discrimination in economics.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Marçal, Katrine, author.       by title:      Mother of invention ...         MARC Display

Mother of invention : how good ideas get ignored in an economy built for men / Katrine Marçal ; translated by Alex Fleming. by Marçal, Katrine, author. New York, NY : Abrams Press, 2021. Subjects Feminist economics.   Women -- Economic conditions.   Sex discrimination in economics. ISBN:  9781419758041 (hardcover) : 1419758047 (hardcover) Description:  296 pages : 24 cm. Requests:  0 Summary:  The wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because "real men" carried their bags, no matter how heavy. There were rolling suitcases before the '70s, but they were marketed as a niche product for (the presumably few) women travelling alone, and the wheeled suitcase wasn't "invented" until it was no longer threatening to masculinity. Mother of Invention draws on this example and many others, from electric cars to tech billionaires, to show how gender bias stifles the economy and holds us back. Our traditional notions about men and women have delayed innovations, sometimes by hundreds of years, and have distorted our understanding of our history. While we talk about the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, we might as well talk about the Ceramic Age or the Flax Age, since these technologies were just as important. But inventions associated with women are not considered to be technology in the same way. Marçal takes us on a tour of the global economy, arguing that gendered assumptions dictate which businesses get funding, how we value work, and how we trace human progress."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 330.082 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 330.082 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList Laupahoehoe P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 330.082 Marcal Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 330.082 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 330.082 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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