Invisible Women / Do it Like a Woman

by Caroline Criado Pérez

Caroline Criado Perez Collection 2 Books Set Includes Titles In This Set :- Invisible Women [Hardcover], Do it Like a Woman. Description:- Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 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. Do it Like a Woman: ... and Change the World Doing anything 'like a woman' used to be an insult. Now, as the women in this book show, it means being brave, speaking out, and taking risks, changing the world one step at a time. Here, campaigner and journalist Caroline Criado-Perez introduces us to a host of pioneers, including a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; a Chilean revolutionary; the Russian punks who rocked against Putin; and the Iranian journalist who uncovered her hair.

Genres: Nonfiction, Feminism, Science

Paperback

About the author

Caroline Criado Pérez is a best-selling and award-winning writer, broadcaster and feminist campaigner. She is published across the major national media, and appears in both print and broadcast as a commentator on a wide range of topics.

Notable campaigns include getting a female historical figure on Bank of England banknotes; getting Twitter to introduce a "report abuse" button on tweets; getting the first statue of a woman (Millicent Fawcett) in Parliament Square.

Her first book, Do it Like a Woman, was published by Portobello in 2015. It was described as “a must-read” by the Sunday Independent and “rousing and immensely readable” by Good Housekeeping who selected it as their “best non-fiction”. Eleanor Marx hailed it in the New Statesman as “an extended and immersive piece of investigative journalism,” while Bridget Christie chose it as one of her books of the year in the Guardian, declaring that “young girls and women everywhere should have a copy.”

Her second book, INVISIBLE WOMEN: exposing data bias in a world designed for men, was published in March 2019 by Chatto & Windus in the UK & Abrams in the US. It is a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and spent 16 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. It is being translated into nineteen languages, and is the winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, the 2019 Books Are My Bag Readers Choice Award, and the 2019 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. It was described by Caitlin Moran as "one of those books that has the potential to change things – a monumental piece of research." Melanie Reid in The Times called Invisible Women "a game-changer...making an unanswerable case and doing so brilliantly…the ambition and scope – and sheer originality – of Invisible Women is huge...It should be on every policymaker, politician and manager’s shelves," a sentiment that was echoed by Nicola Sturgeon who described it as "revelatory," adding that "it should be required reading for policy and decision makers everywhere."

Caroline lives in London with her small excitable dog, Poppy, has a degree in English language and literature from the University of Oxford, and studied behavioural and feminist economics at the LSE. She was the 2013 recipient of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year award, and was named OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015.

Reviews

[Christine Davies · Rating 3 out of 5]

Obviously raises good points.

But some of the rants are not right - like women's clothes not having pockets being seen as not accommodating women's needs... You can find them, but most want a fitted style. Even mens pockets wouldn't fit the current large phones.

Complaining that phone companies have designed large phones for mens hands and not thought about women - large screens are desirable for women just as much, if not more than men. And companies have made one hand functions where it moves the controls to the one side.

Saying breast pump company medulla is the only option on the market and doesn't work well is wrong. There's tonnes of choice and I found medulla to be one of the best options. So I can see why it's a leading choice.

There were lots of studies where I was sceptical that the research had been done with bias opinion from the outset and so finding trends/ skewing results to fit

[Madeleine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thought provoking, giving reasons for many of my frustrations

[Tänschy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fast schon absurd, in wie vielen Lebensbereichen Frauen unbewusst und bewusst ausgeschlossen werden. This is a men‘s world.

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muss jede Person lesen.