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A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug Audiobook Summary

A rally cry for working mothers everywhere that demolishes the “distracted, emotional, weak” stereotype and definitively shows that these professionals are more focused, decisive, and stronger than any other force.

Working mothers aren’t a liability. They are assets you–and every manager and executive–want in your company, in your investment portfolio, and in your corner.

There is copious academic research showing the benefits of working mothers on families and the benefits to companies who give women longer and more flexible parental leave. There are even findings that demonstrate women with multiple children actually perform better at work than those with none or one.

Yet despite this concrete proof that working mothers are a lucrative asset, they still face the “Maternal Wall”–widespread unconscious bias about their abilities, contributions, and commitment. Nearly eighty percent of women are less likely to be hired if they have children–and are half as likely to be promoted. Mothers earn an average $11,000 less in salary and are held to higher punctuality and performance standards. Forty percent of Silicon Valley women said they felt the need to speak less about their family to be taken more seriously. Many have been told that having a second child would cost them a promotion.

Fortunately, this prejudice is slowly giving way to new attitudes, thanks to more women starting their own businesses, and companies like Netflix, Facebook, Apple, and Google implementing more parent-friendly policies. But the most important barrier to change isn’t about men. Women must rethink the way they see themselves after giving birth. As entrepreneur Sarah Lacy makes clear in this cogent, persuasive analysis and clarion cry, the strongest, most lucrative, and most ambitious time of a woman’s career may easily be after she sees a plus sign on a pregnancy test.

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A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug Audiobook Narrator

Gabra Zackman is the narrator of A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug audiobook that was written by Sarah Lacy

Sarah Lacy is the founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of the investigative tech news site Pando.com. She has been covering technology news and entrepreneurship for over fifteen years, with stints at BusinessWeek and TechCrunch before founding her own company while on maternity leave in 2011. She lives in San Francisco. Most importantly of all, she is the mother of two young children.

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Narrator Gabra Zackman
Length 7 hours 31 minutes
Author Sarah Lacy
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Publisher HarperAudio
Release date November 14, 2017
ISBN 9780062742834

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The publisher of the A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Business & Economics, Workplace Culture

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The publisher of the A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062742834.

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Goodreads Reviews

Cari

October 18, 2017

Am I really the first one to review this? I am a Badass Feminist Warrior!! I can't wait for this book to come out so I can recommend it to everyone. In this memoir/advocacy/social science gem, Sarah Lacy rips the veil off the patriarchy that so many people seem to want to hide. This insidious piece of our society has been haunting me since last year's election. It was so refreshing to hear Lacy call out the men who are responsible for it, while also being vulnerable about her own experiences. I enjoyed learning about who she is as a person. I am also so happy she brought in the experiences of women around the world, in poverty, and of all races. This book made me cry, but at the same time, it is a call to action. I refuse to let everyday misogyny bring me down. I want to make a change for my children - both white boys - and for the future.P.S. Thank you to Edelweiss for the advanced reading copy.

Mel

March 20, 2018

SARAH LACY WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE 🙌🏻Sharing her own experience working her way up in Silicon Valley & creating a company while raising 2 kids, and presenting stark facts showing how little we respect professional woman for being anything other than ticking time bombs waiting to request time off for doing crazy things like getting married & have babies— Lacy lays out how far we are from a 50/50 society and how, perhaps, we can do better to examine how we ended up so behind other developed countries that are actually good for/to their women (I’m looking at you Iceland). Women deserve more. Families deserve more. This rounded out the first season of Booked 2018 challenge for the Body Positive category.

Kay

January 23, 2018

Sarah Lacy is the pissed off older sister/feminist mentor that I never knew that I wanted and needed so badly, especially after withstanding this last year. A lot of the topics Lacy covers throughout the book really resonated with me in a way that I wasn't expecting considering that I thought I was going to have a tough time relating to her based on her beginning thesis of being a working mother. Instead, I ended up having my own "aha!" moment.Having recently quit a job in an extremely male-dominated industry, Lacy's own complaints about the misogyny and benevolent sexism of the tech business world reminded me that leaving my consistent job was the best decision that I ever made. I was constantly reminded of all the comments and prejudice that was directed towards me not only when I worked as a receptionist but even more so as I worked hard to earn my high-level management position at such a young age (twenty-two), but also as an Asian-American woman. Comments about my age, the way I looked and dressed, my lack of experience, amongst other things. Yet, for every comment that was made, I was expected to just grin and bear it. Lacy's no-nonsense writing reminded me that things need to start changing for the better.Lacy also brought me a lot of comfort for the possibility of becoming a mother myself in the future. I found her story fascinating and completely terrifying, but in a way that is completely inspirational to me. Her writing is honest, hilarious and felt like I was sitting in the same room having a conversation with her.This book isn't just for working mothers, mother's to be or just women. This is a book that needs to be passed from person to person regardless of their gender. It's time we stand together under a common goal and crush the patriarchy.

Arthy

January 11, 2019

There are times when I was reading this book, I told to myself “Thank you Sarah Lacy, that’s exactly what I wanted to hear today !! “. Women in different countries and regions face different challenges. Coming from an Indian origin, I have witnessed a lot of bright women drop out of workforce at some point or the other. I can’t say that I see this in public services, but certainly in tech. I have always wondered what caused them to do so, is it a part of opt-out revolution or the guilt of not being available to your children 100%. I also have to say that the society does play a major role in taking moms who choose to work on a guilt ride, certainly where I come from. The part the struck me most was the reason behind using the quota system to fix the gender mix at all levels. This resonates with the caste based quota that prevails in India. Quota system is good, if it is revamped every few years based on historical data. However if that’s not the case, then I am not sure if the system and the numbers will be relevant in the long run. Women uplift women. Let’s do our tiny part in influencing a change for the better for generations to come.

Matt

August 30, 2018

I've followed Sarah Lacy's reporting on men behaving badly in Silicon Valley for a while, so jumped at the chance to see her at a live interview. She brought down the house, and I got a copy of her book to boot, signed "You are right, the world is wrong."The book is a solid mix of personal stories, academic research, and interviews, and Sarah Lacy's voice throughout the narrative makes it all the more compelling. Who else could pull off titling a chapter "You Don't F*** with the Women of Iceland"?Which brings up my last point - namely, this book wasn't written to make everyone happy. It's not written in the informative, conciliatory tone of say Anne-Marie Slaughter's recent book on nominally the same topic. Sarah Lacy is brazen and unapologetic, and this book is all the better for it.

Michelle

February 17, 2018

love, love, loved. If you're a working mother, or just a working woman, you have to read this book.

Melissa

November 29, 2017

It would be far too easy to gush over this book, to say that it should be required reading for every woman who works outside the home, or has a daughter who does. It would be ridiculously simple to refer to the author, Sarah Lacy as one of the most important feminist voices of the modern era. Those things would be easy and simple because they are both true.This book is witty, yes, but it’s also wise. It’s a gift from one woman to many others, of the author’s experience and insight, and while it’s written in an upbeat tone, it’s also quite frank.More specifically, this book provides real advice on women in the workplace, especially after they become mothers. It talks about how to balance career goals with parenthood goals, but it also encourages women to be firm about how they’re treated, and sheds light on the way women in general, and women with children specifically, are perceived, and how to both cope and counter the (mostly) white, male establishment.I’m not a mother, and I’ve been out of corporate America for over a decade, but I still found this book incredibly informative, insightful, and even empowering, and I’m recommending it to all of my friends – women and men – who still work for other people.Will this book really help to overthrow the patriarchy? Maybe, maybe not. But it will open your eyes to what women face in the workplace every day, and, as the saying goes, knowledge is power.Goes well with grilled salmon, roasted red potatoes, a lush salad, and a glass of wine.

Jen

January 01, 2018

"A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug" counts Sarah Lacy’s decade-long journey, in her words, from “sexism denier” to “badass feminist warrior.” Take Silicon Valley, with all of its opportunity and optimism, and pull back the curtain. It’s also a system with warts and scars and chewed-up remains of many idealists. Only by taking this objective, multi-faceted view to the startup ecosphere, can we truly examine our biases and question the limitations that have been placed on all of us.With her writing, Sarah isn’t interested in playing nice, should it offend a few mild-mannered perpetrators of benevolent sexism. She won’t kowtow to even other women who may see her as “too radical.” But maybe the filter of patriarchy has been distorting our reality so long, we’ve forgotten what “reasonable” sounds like.That’s why, in the Series of Young Professional Female Awakening, "Uterus" should be the next assigned reading after "Lean In." The polished, virtuous ideas in "Lean In" will open your eyes, and the unapologetic fire in "Uterus" will piss you off.Sheryl Sandberg’s creed of “rise above it” can be aspirational, but we’re not going to achieve true equality by perpetually (and exclusively) being the “good girls.” Sarah’s rallies around “Let go of perfection and FUCK your guilt and FUCK the patriarchy” does a nice job of rounding out feminism in this industry.And it’s nice to have the option of both.(My full review, in which I liken Sarah Lacy & Sheryl Sandberg as collective older sisters / models in tech, is here: https://medium.com/@jenniferkim/a-reb...)

Shannon

January 12, 2018

Having bought this book when it was published I only just finally got around to reading it. I’m very glad I did - it is a deeply personal book more so perhaps than most technology industry books but as a father it is also a very recognizable story. Full disclosure first - while not close to Sarah Lacy or Paul Carr I was (am to a limited degree) a part of the tech/blogging world when they were both at TechCrunch and I was there for many of the disrupts (usually with a free badge). I worked for various competitors of theirs but was was also a friend of Michael Arrington’s and many others in the tech and media worlds. Reading this book of course was illuminating about so much that as an observer from afar I had no idea was happening. More relevant this is a book that everyone - male or female, founder, investor or “just” an employee or manager should read. It is a quick read but it is also a reminder especially in light of the #metoo movement that has largely occurred after this book went to print of how far we as a society have to go around how we treat women (and this includes as the book makes clear how women treat themselves and others). I’m in the early stages of a new venture and I definitely will make explicit as part of my new venture (and any companies we buy or invest in - the venture is a fund) that hiring women and minorities isn’t something to be done later. Nor is creating a workplace that supports parents optional. I’m male but also a father of a four and a half year old - while every child I different I felt very personally the struggles depicted in this book but also the joys of parenting. So read the book and then act upon it. Make changes to your own actions - and if you can to those of the company you keep.

Amanda

September 08, 2018

This was good, but parts of it I didn't like. The beginning was great, and the end was very good, but the middle part wasn't that interesting to me, and seemed "complaining". She seemed a little "man-bashing", during discussing the context of her divorce and throughout other parts of the book. Additionally, she's very honest, and that's good, but can come across harsh (which is exactly what she says is a problem, with people thinking women who are bold are harsh - I get it!). She definitely lays out the problem that women need to overcome in the workforce at this point of time in Silicon Valley. I liked how she had some practical tips on how to keep all your plates spinning as a mom and as a executive, and how she shared her journey honestly through both the struggles and successes. She's a person that I think I'd like to meet in person one day.

Nat in Books

May 21, 2020

Cabe mencionar que me ha encantado el formato utilizado por la autora, pero también cómo lo ha plasmado la editorial, haciendo que la lectura resulte ágil dado el género que es.La autora utiliza mucho el sarcasmo, pero también la más profunda honestidad en las experiencias que describe, de una manera muy ligera pero efectiva.Cualquier mujer se puede sentir identificada con las experiencias como mujer que narra la autora, si bien se centra en un lugar concreto (EEUU), donde la cultura laboral es distinta a la nuestra (España).Esta lectura me ha ayudado a confirmar en qué clase de sistema vivimos las mujeres, pero también que tenemos el deber de reafirmar quiénes de verdad somos y luchar contra los que asumen lo que somos en base a nuestras circunstancias.

pea.

December 31, 2017

it might seem to be preaching to the choir...it is giving voice and focus to the choir.it is not heavy handedit may have a bit too much of the author in it (journalists do not seem to insert themselves into their articles) the insertion of the author into this a)makes it a narrative that b) gives a frame work and catalyst to all that is involved into this book c) the author is sociologist minus the titlethe question is how to get others (those not in the choir)to read/listen/understand.as with the 'working woman' part of the title... all woman work.... stay at home moms... full time students...even the 1% (right?)my voice has been given must missed volume... time to go sing.

Diane

August 18, 2019

Where was this when I was working?Excellent introduction to women and working and motherhood and fighting the patriarchy that pushes Every Woman down. Filled with details so we can understand what has happened. Details about other countries where women and work are not Rules by patriarchy. And ideas about what we might do to move out from under the patriarchy. All while telling the Vivid story of this one woman and her fight.

Danielle

July 28, 2018

I really liked this one. Not every page was amazing but it is a solid read and a solid reminder of why we are often feeling so disheartened at work. The overarching theme is "its not you. this is real" and it gives dozens of anecdotes and suggestions for change. The epilogue at the end was as good as the Abby Wombach commencement speech. I didn't know who Sarah Lacy was before reading this but I won't forget her now.

Laurian

April 27, 2018

Hum. I have a lot of opinions on this topic. I won't get into those. I'll say that this is really well written and most people should read it if you are in the tech world. That said, I think Sarah Lacy is downplaying just how difficult it is to be a woman in tech, particularly technical leadership. She cites facts, but her own life story is displayed with such a sense of optimism and energy that it takes away from the struggle.

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