Technology’s many automated female voices are nothing if not helpful. By Susan Dominus Artwork by Yehwan Song Susan Dominus is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the ...

At this point, there is no shortage of stories that have posed some form of the question, “Why are voice assistants always female?” GeorgePeters/Getty Images Imagine yourself in the cockpit of a ...

Is your smartphone "sexist"? The rise of voice assistant technology—and longstanding gender disparities within the tech industry—means assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Cortana are under a microscope ...