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reporting. One approach she favored was to portray me as a misogynist. To generate further sympathy, she suggested she reveal publicly that she had been sexually assaulted as a student at Stanford. Her advisers counseled against going that route, but she didn’t abandon it entirely. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, she suggested she was the victim of sexism. “Until what happened in the last four weeks, I didn’t understand what it means to be a woman in this space,” she told the magazine. “Every article starting with, ‘A young woman.’ Right? Someone came up to me the other day, and they were like, ‘I have never read an article about Mark Zuckerberg that starts with ‘A young man.’ ” In her acceptance speech at Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year Awards at Carnegie Hall, she held herself up as a role model for young women. “Do everything you can to be the best in science and math and engineering,” she urged them. “It’s that that our little girls will see when they start to think about who do they want to be when they grow up.” Carreyrou, John. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (p. 280). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Carreyrou, John. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (p. 280). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Carreyrou, John. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (p. 280). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

— Theramos founder on sexism  

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