Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

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Trailblazing memoir exposing Silicon Valley's inequity.

If you're intrigued by the inner workings of Silicon Valley and the ongoing conversation around workplace diversity, Ellen Pao's "Reset" could be an enlightening read for you. It's a candid account of her personal battle against gender discrimination and her broader fight for inclusion. This book might inspire you, especially if you're interested in social justice or the tech industry's culture.

  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Shortlist (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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ISBN: 9780399591013
Authors: Ellen Pao
Publisher: Random House
Date of Publication: 2017-09-19
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Biographies & Memoirs, Sociology
Goodreads rating: 4.12
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The "necessary and incisive" (Roxane Gay) account of the discrimination case that "has blown open a conversation about the status of women" in the workplace (The New York Times). In 2015, Ellen K. Pao sued a powerhouse Silicon Valley venture capital firm, calling out workplace discrimination and retaliation against women and other underrepresented groups. Her suit rocked the tech world and exposed its toxic culture and its homogeneity. Her message overcame negative PR attacks that took aim at her professional conduct and her personal life, and she won widespread public support—Time hailed her as "the face of change." Though Pao lost her suit, she revolutionized the conversation at tech offices, in the media, and around the world. In Reset, she tells her full story for the first time. The daughter of immigrants, Pao was taught that through hard work she could achieve her dreams. She earned multiple Ivy League degrees, worked at top startups, and in 2005 was recruited by Kleiner Perkins, arguably the world's leading venture capital firm at the time. In many ways, she did everything right, and yet she and other women and people of color were excluded from success—cut out of decisive meetings and email discussions, uninvited to CEO dinners and lavish networking trips, and had their work undercut or appropriated by male executives. It was time for a system reset. After Kleiner,
 

Trailblazing memoir exposing Silicon Valley's inequity.

If you're intrigued by the inner workings of Silicon Valley and the ongoing conversation around workplace diversity, Ellen Pao's "Reset" could be an enlightening read for you. It's a candid account of her personal battle against gender discrimination and her broader fight for inclusion. This book might inspire you, especially if you're interested in social justice or the tech industry's culture.

  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Shortlist (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.