She made her name as a pioneer at Google, then as chief executive at Yahoo. Now Mayer is entering the crowded marketplace for A.I. assistants β and hoping to draw in more women with a product that tackles the mental load.
Marissa Mayer has reinvented herself as a start-up founder, with a team of 10 engineers β a fraction of the armies of programmers she once commanded at Yahoo and Google.
Sanae Takaichi said she has a busier schedule than her male predecessors, a nod to the disproportionate share of household tasks in Japan that fall to women.