Siri is not a woman, necessarily 

Apple announced that its iPhone digital assistant, Siri, would not, by default, be a woman’s voice. Host Carol Hills tells how the updated operating system requires users to choose one of four voices — men and women. And as the University of North Carolina sociologist Zeynep Tufekci points out, this is a long-overdue update to the stereotype of the subservient female assistant.

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