A review by divsies
Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber by Susan Fowler

4.0

"In that moment, my mind led me back to a place I'd often found myself before, trying to decide if moral obligation lay in the consequences of an action, in the action itself or in the motive for the action."

I hadn't read the original Uber blog post before reading this book, so I really didn't have any idea what to expect. I'm glad I stepped out of my fiction-bubble and picked up this memoir, because it was incredibly insightful, clearly written, and hard-hitting.

The blatant sexism, gaslighting, and manipulation that Fowler went through infuriated and horrified me. I'd heard of sexism in STEM and academia through my mother's experiences, but this book took it so much further and laid everything out in the sun for all of its ugly parts to be seen. Fowler's deep dig into her experiences at UPenn, Uber, and Silicon Valley startups in general is an incredibly important one. It's a ray of hope that some wider cultural change is starting to take place, and that there's at least some light at the end of the tunnel for non-male STEM professionals. Or maybe I'm just being naively optimistic.
Either way, this was an impactful and very worthwhile read.