Huffpost Business & Tech – Spoken Edition

NEW YORK ― There’s a reason women keep quiet about men like Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby and Donald Trumpfor decades before numerous sexual assault accusations suddenly spill out at once. In game theory, it’s called the “first-mover disadvantage”: the idea that a first accuser faces the greatest risk of retaliation or skepticism, especially if no one else follows.

But to get to that couch in that tony neighborhood in Brooklyn, Hyman had to run uphill through the sexist muck of the business world. She said she’d been called the C-word by a male colleague twice her age, dismissed as a “girl into dresses,” sexually propositioned by an investor and told she needed to “shut-up” and act more ladylike. She has also navigated her way through the subtle biases female entrepreneurs face every day. Some may never even notice them.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged on Thursday that “things happened on our platform in [the 2016 election] that should not have happened,” and Americans deserve an apology for that.

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When the Fearless Girl statue was erected on Wall Street, facing off defiantly against the Charging Bull, she was hailed as the ultimate in female empowerment ― “a powerful symbol,”tweeted New York City Public Advocate Letitia James. Crowds flocked to see her.

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Why does Starbucks think it’s OK to give its well-compensated salaried employees far better paid leave benefits than hourly workers who are already barely scraping by? On Monday, some of the company’s shareholders filed a resolution demanding an explanation. At issue is a new Starbucks maternity and paternity leave policy that went into effect over the weekend.

A shopper in Whole Foods came across the most puzzling of cakes for sale ― a sheet cake celebrating Yom Kippur. According to The Forward, a shopper at a Whole Foods in Rockville, Maryland came across a cake emblazoned with “Yom Kippur!”on it, accompanied by pomegranates, apples, a fish, a menorah and a honey pot. Now, cakes are great, but probably not the best idea for a holiday that involves fasting.

In the year since Uber started chauffeuring riders in its self-driving cars, Peduto criticized the company for not partnering with the city and community organizations more and told The Incline in September that he’s optimistic about self-driving car companiestaking more civic responsibility as they pour more jobs and resources into the city. But the specifics on which jobs will be created and which jobs will become obsolete are still unknown to experts and city leaders.