“When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default.”
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“Our language choices change how we use our time and energy. For every word we use to describe where we want to go, there's another word that we're walking away from.”
― How to Make Sense of Any Mess
― How to Make Sense of Any Mess
“Failing to include the perspective of women is a huge driver of unintended male bias that attempts (often in good faith) to pass itself off as 'gender neutral'.”
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“Even the best of men can’t know what it’s like to go through the world as a person with a body which some other people treat as an access-all-areas amusement arcade.”
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“Everything around you was architected by another person. Whether or not they were aware of what they were doing. Whether or not they did a good job. Whether or not they delegated the task to a computer. Information is a responsibility we all share.”
― How to Make Sense of Any Mess
― How to Make Sense of Any Mess
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Dear NYC Members, Seeing that OSS is a global book club, this chapter of Our Shared Shelf will serve to bring together the members who reside in New ...more
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