Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Menby Caroline Criado Perez
isbn: 9781784706289
Publication Date: March 17, 2020
Pages: 410
Genre: Science
Publisher: Vintage Books
Imagine a world where...
· Your phone is too big for your hand
· Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body
· In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured.If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you're a woman.
From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences. 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 profound impact this has on us all.
Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives.
While I was reading the Preface, I was really settling in for a good, informative, empirical survey of data bias. But I barely made it through the introduction. I am not interested in a manifesto, even if it’s a manifesto based on solid, rational reasoning. Manifestos – all manifestos – end badly. The introduction, it’s safe to say, pissed me off, and likely not in the way the author intended.
I’m hungry for the data, so I’m going to keep going and hope she got her snarky anger out of the way in the introduction – I prefer my snarky anger when it’s in works of fiction.