Mother of Invention

A salon with Katrine Kielos-Marçal

 Ideas  / Thurs 14 March / 6.30 - 8:30 pm
(Doors open from 6:30pm. Talk starts at 7pm)

Did you know that electric cars existed back in the early 20th century but were discarded because they weren’t considered 'manly enough’, yet? Katrine Kielos-Marçal offers an eye-opening examination of innovation, technology, and business through a feminist lens. She argues that gender bias has pushed women out of economic sectors into lower status and paying jobs. Up until the mid 1960s, computer programming was a woman’s industry. Then, it became men’s reign and, along with them, came higher salaries and status. It seems as if money and status keep following men around in the economy. Why is that? And how can we change that? Katrine reveals where the problem might lie, while challenging  definitions and perceptions of masculinity. 

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ABOUT

Katrine Kielos-Marçal is a Swedish economic commentator, financial journalist and award winning author known for her book Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?, a concise and engaging examination of women's key role in the economy and its lack of a matching recognition or even a pay check. The book has been translated in more than 20 languages and named one of The Guardian’s books of the year in 2015. BBC also named Katrine one of its 100 Women in 2015. Her latest work Mother of invention, dives into gender bias and how the exclusion of women from innovative processes distorts history, technology and innovation. She is global economic commentator for Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter and is also a sought after speaker and conference moderator on women and innovation.

GOOD READS

Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner (2015), The Mother of Invention. How Good Ideas Get Ignored In A World Built For Men (2020).

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