Invisible Women

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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% 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. Free Read Invisible Women [ author ] Caroline Criado Perez [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr This is a book about unconscious bias It s not about men deliberately excluding women when considering things like uniforms, city travel, or treatments for medical conditions although it s true that once the bias is pointed out, it s not always top of the list to make safety adjustments And that s really one of the most important points of the book it endangers women if you design and build the world without considering women s needs and habits Women are built in a particular way, and th This is a book about unconscious bias It s not about men deliberately excluding women when considering things like uniforms, city travel, or treatments for medical conditions although it s true that once the bias is pointed out, it s not always top of the list to make safety adjustments And that s really one of the most important points of the book it endangers women if you design and build the world without considering women s needs and habits Women are built in a particular way, and they are socially conditioned in a particular way, and they re treated in a particular way comparing all this to men s situation is useful only to a certain extent because it is so easy for everyone to slip into the mindset that men are the default huma...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.Read this if you re ready to get mad about how basically every research study done and used to create solutions to problems for all people are based on the average white male Not surprising, but infuriating to see it laid out so plainly I ve always been so angered about technology being not useful for my tiny hands, and it s relieving and again, angering and frustrating this is just a norm of being female when research completely excludes the fact your body isn t the average white dude Read this if you re ready to get mad about how basically every research study done and used to create solutions to problems for all people are based on the average white male Not surprising, but infuriating to see it laid out so plainly I ve always been so angered about technology being not useful for my tiny hands, and it s relieving and again, angering and frustrating this is just a norm of being female when research completely excludes the fact your body isn t the average white dude A...A really strong and interesting read It s a very powerful, somewhat depressing but entirely eye opening look at how women and data surrounding women is left out of the system we live it I would highly, highly recommend.Since I ve picked up this book, I ve recommended it to everyone I ve talked to, and now I m recommending it to you This is an extremely well researched and comprehensive look at the gender data gap in all aspects of life, ranging from the utterly absurd to the life threatening The sub subtitle of this book could be but wait, there sas Criado Perez delves deep into the social construction of the gender data gap with both conscious humour and appropriate outrage I cannot recommend this Since I ve picked up this book, I ve recommended it to everyone I ve talked to, and now I m recommending it to you This is an extremely well researched and comprehensive look at the gender data gap in all aspects of life, ranging from the utterly absurd to the life threa...I wish I could make everyone read this book in the hope that every man could actually see how insignificant women are in a male oriented world Quite simply, we do not exist.When I was 13 I adored reading Sherlock Holmes stories but I soon worked out that when a man refers to people what he actually means is other men Every single thing that impacts on the lives of women has actually been designed by men for the benefit of men From cars to taxes, from medication to disaster relief time and I wish I could make everyone read this book in the hope that every man could actual...Audiobook fundamental para se ter uma vis o abrangente e fiel das desigualdades de g nero a que as mulheres continuam sujeitas num mundo moldado imagem dos homens.Everybody needs to read this book Everybody Female, male, nonbinary, everybody.The introduction perfectly articulated and validated many of my own anecdotal observations the pervasive idea that female is somehow a deviation of human, rather than the base model The first few chapters, which deal largely with social impacts community planning, workplace dynamics, etc were fascinating, insightful, and compelling.But then as the book progresses, Criado Perez slowly ups the ante By the tim Everybody needs to read this book Everybody Female, male, nonbinary, everybody.The introduction perfectly articulated and validated many of my own anecdotal observations the pervasive idea that female is somehow a deviation of human, rather than the base model The first few chapters, which deal largely with social impacts community planning, workplace dynamics, etc were fascinating, insightful, and compelling.But then as the book progresses, Criado Perez slowly ups the ante By the time she begins to dissect the utter disregard for women in medical studies and pharmaceutical trials, I was a white hot ball of righteous fury And it only gets worse from there.And yet, despite how FUCKING LITERALLY INCREDIBLE it is that women remain unseen, despite comprising half of the population, Criado Perez s impeccable research and dry wit give the reader something ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Like so many of the decisions to exclude women in the interests of simplicity , from architecture to medical research, this conclusion could only be reached in a culture that conceives of men as the default human, and women as a niche aberration To distort a reality you are supposedly trying to measure makes sense only if you don t see women as essential It doesn t make sense if you re talking about half the human race And it doesn t make sense if you care about accurate data And there you Like so many of the decisions to exclude women in the interests of simplicity , from architecture to medical research, this conclusion could only be reached in a culture that conceives of men as the default human, and women as a niche aberration To distort a reality you are supposedly trying to measure makes sense only if you don t see women as essential It doesn t make sense if you re talking about half the human race And it doesn t make sense if you care about accurate data And there you have it For years and years and years, society has ignored the fact that women are physiologically different to men and as a result have comp...This book is infuriating as it is fascinating.

Invisible Women
  • English
  • 10 February 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 432 pages
  • 1419729071
  • Caroline Criado Perez
  • Invisible Women