Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Avarla reviewed Invisible Women : Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez

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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 …

Lavinia reviewed Invisible Women : Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez

Invisible women is a book about absence, it's a look at how the world is designed in favour of the average person which ends being male biased in all sort of things, from how cities are planned to menial things like how a phone is designed. It’s about the decisions to exclude women in the interests of simplicity, from architecture to medical research. It is packed with facts but it is written in such a way that it is really witty. Invisible women is for everyone, woman or man, who is interested in having an equal society. It’s also a book for policy-makers; it will introduce them to new and different ways of looking at the world, ways that probably they wouldn’t have considered before.