{"id":1028,"date":"2007-02-27T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2018-01-17T20:49:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:49:18","slug":"gender-bias-in-mobile-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Gender bias in mobile phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This past weekend, my wife had an opportunity to corner the co-CEO of a telephone manufacturer at a brunch and she challenged him to design a female-friendly mobile handset for her.<\/p>\n<p>Susie&#8217;s complaint? The design of most current phones is biased to favour men. Phones are designed to be kept on belt holsters or pockets. What is she supposed to do with her phone when she is wearing a dress?<\/p>\n<p>Put it in her purse, you say? Can&#8217;t hear it, can&#8217;t feel it vibrate and can&#8217;t get to it in time. Bluetooth interferes with her glasses and necklace and let&#8217;s face it, looks too geeky to wear all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Finney Boylan, a transgender author, was <a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0505\/25\/lkl.01.html\">interviewed by Larry King<\/a> a couple years ago. He asked if she missed anything about being a man.<\/p>\n<p>Her reply, &#8220;Pockets.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, my wife had an opportunity to corner the co-CEO of a telephone manufacturer at a brunch and she challenged him to design a female-friendly mobile handset for her. Susie&#8217;s complaint? The design of most current phones is biased to favour men. 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