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Jessie Tu
Jessie Tu
Jessie Tu is a journalist and writer based between Taipei and Sydney whose recent work examines gender, race and culture across East Asia and Australia

When a married woman can only have an abortion if her husband agrees, when women are still blamed for inviting sexual harassment, and when a wave of murders of women sparks little outrage, there is still much work to do to create a fair society.

The ubiquity of attractive young women promoting products and the dearth of female speakers at Asia’s largest cybersecurity conference in Taipei shows that the tech industry has a long way to go in recognising women’s contributions.