Money talks: Silicon sexism
Money Talks from The Economist
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🗓️ 8 August 2017
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Work takes up a big part of your life. |
| 0:03.0 | That's why it indeed, we believe that work should make your life better. |
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| 0:25.8 | Upload your CV today for free on Indeed. |
| 0:29.0 | co-dot-k. Hello I'm Simon Long the finance editor at The Economist and this is Money Talks. |
| 0:40.0 | Coming up this week, who should chair America's Federal Reserve. |
| 0:43.4 | The favourite for the job really, at least according to the betting markets, |
| 0:46.7 | is Gary Cohen, the President's top economics advisor. |
| 0:50.5 | And over 200 years on, could Jean-Batee's ideas on supply and demand still have relevance today? |
| 0:57.0 | I think in particular this notion that if you have an overcapacity problem, the answer is to cut production. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, that might be true of particular products, but it's not true of the economy as a whole, |
| 1:08.0 | and I think that's a lesson that really needs to be looked at with China in mind. |
| 1:13.0 | But first, a 10-page manifesto criticizing Google's diversity policies has been leaked, and its |
| 1:19.5 | in-house author, a software engineer called James Daymore sacked. The paper argued that the scarcity |
| 1:25.7 | of women in top tech jobs was in part the result of innate differences between men and women. |
| 1:31.8 | He's created such a stir that the firm's chief executive, |
| 1:34.2 | Sunda Pichai, has cut short his holiday. Our US technology editor, |
| 1:38.5 | Alexander Switch switch, joins me now from Silicon Valley. Good morning, Alexandra. |
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