Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
amazon.com
Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
‘Garbage in, garbage…
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.
Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
Because, as the book made clear, hunting was a…
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.
Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
But although I talk about both sex and gender throughout, I use gender data gap as an overarching term because sex is not the reason…
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.
Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
Okay this is a strong claim. "Gender is the reason why women are excluded from data." Let's see how.
And as I will show, failing to include the perspective of women is a huge driver of an unintended male bias that attempts (often in good faith)…
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.
Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
This is no doubt true of our species overall – but the reality of human-on-human lethal violence is that it is overwhelmingly a male occupation: a thirty-year analysis of murder in Sweden found that nine out of ten murders are committed by men.5 This holds with statistics from other countries, including Australia,6 the UK7 and the US.8 A 2013 UN ho
... See moreCaroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
With examples from technology to natural disasters, this is an original and timely reminder of why we need women in the leadership of the…
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.
Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
And so she asked a simple question to fill the silence: ‘what were the females doing while the males were out hunting?’ Answer: gathering, weaning, caring for children during ‘longer periods of infant dependency’,…
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.
Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. Simone de Beauvoir
Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
Slightly related question. What if we mistakenly confuse the data representation of our world, wether they are constructed by men, women, or both combined as absolute truth. Absolute truth is really hard to grasp, no? And is this only a male issue?
‘The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence’,