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The Smart wife

Analyses how smart home technologies are designed around a feminised, servile archetype and what that means for gender equality in domestic life

by Yolande Strengers & Jenny Kennedy

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Why I picked it up
Strengers and Kennedy on the gendered design of smart home AI. Essential context for anyone designing voice assistants: who gets to be the default voice, and what that communicates.
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