Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

Author: Caroline Criado Perez

Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you’re a woman.

Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population.

It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives.

Award-winning campaigner and writer Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the impact this has on their health and well-being.

From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women.

In making the case for change, this powerful and provocative book will make you see the world anew.

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Do not read this if you are suffering from high blood pressure, because it is absolutely rage inducing. However EVERYONE should read this at some point, it looks at things that I had never even considered, genuinely brilliant. Second Read- so…. my Feminist bookclub have this on the list, so gave it a reread- just as goddamn rage inducing on the second read. Becky                                                                                                    rated it: 5.0 from 5.0 

This book!! It took me a long time to read, since it´s a lot about (very frustrating) numbers. It´s pretty great, and terrifying at the same time. We have a lot of work to do, if we want things to truly change, but the first thing to maybe read this book and try to understand all the different things that are still separating women from really being equals in a default male world. julieta                                                                                                    rated it: 5.0 from 5.0 

I read this hoping to do a presentation at work for our Women’s Development forum, but holy crap, how in the world do you boil down such a densely filled book into 10-15 slides and a clean summary? IT CAN’T BE DONE. Well, I guess it can, but I wouldn’t come close to doing justice to this vastly important book. “Gender data gap” would sound too much like a buzz word, and the message could never penetrate as it should. Instead I am submitting this as a book club choice at work, but hoping we can read it in the background, over the course of a quarter, not a month. Each woman will wish to sip, not chug, this book as we may for many of our less weighty novels and business books Donna Backshall                                                                                      rated it: 5.0 from 5.0