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. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women. Award-winning campaigner …
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. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women. 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.
In making the case for change, this powerful and provocative book will make you see the world anew.
Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2019
Winner of the Readers' Choice Books Are My Bag Award 2019
Winner of the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2019
The Times Current Affairs Book of the Year 2019
If your blood doesn't boil reading this, then you're part of the problem, it should be mandatory reading for all males. It's page after page of unremitting evidence of the gender data gap, and how it effects every part of a woman's life; some of it simply beggars belief. I was expecting a dry and difficult to engage with wall of text, but it was very accessible and very well written; if you're into evidence, then the last third of the book is links to all the sources of the statistics and what not.
This link is taking you to: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Caroline-Criado-Perez/Invisible-Women--the-Sunday-Times-number-one-bestseller-e/23638539. Is that where you'd like to go?
