Katherine

“Employment procedures that are unwittingly biased towards men are an issue in promotion as well as hiring. A classic example comes from Google, where women weren't nominating themselves for promotion at the same rate as men. This is unsurprising: women are conditioned to be modest, and are penalised when they step outside of this prescribed gender norm [...] their [Google] solution was not to fix the male-biased system: it was to fix the women. Senior women at Google started hosting workshops 'to encourage women to nominate themselves''.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“This observation may go some way to explaining why a Finnish study found that single women recovered better from heart attacks than married women – particularly when put alongside a University of Michigan study which found that husbands create an extra seven hours o housework a week for women. An Australian study similarly found that housework time is most equal by gender for single men and women; when women start to cohabit, 'their housework time goes up while men's goes down, regardless of their employment status.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men