Summary Of Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

by Tim Norris

IMPORTANT This is a Summary Of Invisible Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perezand not the original book.

Get the hard facts on gender equality.
Smartphones are designed to be used by male hands. Standard office temperatures are set to the male metabolic resting rate. Regulation car safety tests are performed on male crash test dummies.
We live in a world designed for and around men. How did this bias come about?
It’s partly down to the gender data gap. When we assume that males and male needs are standard, we neglect to consider women and women’s needs. This tendency to overlook women leads to a gender data gap, in which women aren’t adequately represented in the data that underpins decision-making.
The gender data gap is the source of many inconveniences that women experience on a daily basis, like longer lines for public bathrooms that aren’t built to accommodate their needs. At its most extreme, the gender data gap can have lethal consequences – for instance, worse outcomes for women in a car crash can be traced to this gap.
It’s not just women who suffer, either. From politics to the global economy, the gender data gap negatively affects all of us. To address it, we first need to face up to how it shapes our world.
In these book, you’ll
•Why snowplowing might just be a feminist issue.
•Who reference man is.
•How the gender data gap is costing us trillions in global GDP.

21 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 7, 2019

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Is this the epitome of mansplaining? Having a man explain a woman's book on gender bias?
Don't read a summary, read the original.

[Strick · Rating 5 out of 5]

First Rate!