So yes, probably these compliant female robot voices reinforce gender stereotypes, not just because they serve the user but because the technology itself is about communication and relationships ...

One may assume that women in computer science, like those depicted on the show “Halt and Catch Fire,” were a rarity in the early ’80s, but that’s not true.

Voices of authority or menace tend to be male: the homicidal HAL 9000 computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the computer program in “WarGames,” or Auto, the spaceship’s autopilot function ...