Review of 'Invisible Women : Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This was a tough read. It’s full of instances where women are overlooked because we simply don’t have data on them. The worst thing is that in most cases we didn’t even deliberately ignore women, we (or more correctly the all male deciders) just forgot about them.
Where men don’t use (or even enter?) kitchen, they just forget to include them in emergency rebuilding projects.
Since men don’t walk or use public transportation as much, sidewalks don’t get plowed in time and bus schedules and routes are not made for hopping off to do some grocery shopping while leaving work.
For those cases the solution sounds simple: Add some female decision makers to boards, politic parties, and lead management.
Only apparently it isn’t that simple at all, since especially in politics, women simply can’t be seen as assertive yet warm personalities.
So for me it seems we need a step …
This was a tough read. It’s full of instances where women are overlooked because we simply don’t have data on them. The worst thing is that in most cases we didn’t even deliberately ignore women, we (or more correctly the all male deciders) just forgot about them.
Where men don’t use (or even enter?) kitchen, they just forget to include them in emergency rebuilding projects.
Since men don’t walk or use public transportation as much, sidewalks don’t get plowed in time and bus schedules and routes are not made for hopping off to do some grocery shopping while leaving work.
For those cases the solution sounds simple: Add some female decision makers to boards, politic parties, and lead management.
Only apparently it isn’t that simple at all, since especially in politics, women simply can’t be seen as assertive yet warm personalities.
So for me it seems we need a step before that one ☝
