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‘Brotopia is greater than a business publication. Silicon Valley retains amazing power over our present lives as well as whatever utopia (or nightmare) might come next.’ –New York Occasions

Silicon Valley is today’s utopia where anyone can transform the world. Unless you’re a female.

For women in tech, Silicon Valley isn’t a fantasyland of unicorns, digital reality rainbows, about Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley and 3D-printed lollipops, where huge amount of money grow on trees and shrubs. It’s a ‘Brotopia,’ where guys hold all the cards and make all of the rules. Greatly outnumbered, women face harmful workplaces rife with discrimination and sexual harassment, where investors take meetings in scorching tubs and network at sex parties.

With this powerful exposé, Bloomberg TV journalist Emily Chang reveals how Silicon Valley got so sexist despite its utopian ideals, why bro culture endures despite decades of companies claiming the moral high surface (AVOID BEING Evil! Connect the Globe!)–and how women are finally starting to speak out and fight.

Drawing on her behalf deep network of Silicon Valley insiders, Chang opens the boardroom doorways of male-dominated venture capital firms want Kleiner Perkins, the subject of Ellen Pao’s high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit, and Sequoia, in which a partner once famously said they ‘won’t lower their standards’ merely to hire women. Interviews with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, and previous Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer–who got their start at Google, where just one in five engineers is definitely a woman–reveal precisely how hard it really is to crack the Silicon Ceiling. And Chang displays how women such as previous Uber engineer Susan Fowler, entrepreneur Niniane Wang, and game creator Brianna Wu, have risked their careers and sometimes their lives to pave a way for other ladies.

Silicon Valley’s aggressive, misogynistic, work-at-all costs culture has shut ladies from the greatest wealth creation in the history of the world. It is time to split up the males’ membership. Emily Chang shows us how to fix this harmful culture–to bring down Brotopia, forever.