Carla Mendes

“But we aren’t starting the studies now. Instead, we continue to rely on data from studies done on men as if they apply to women. Specifically, Caucasian men aged twenty-five to thirty, who weigh 70 kg. This is ‘Reference Man’ and his superpower is being able to represent humanity as a whole. Of course, he does not.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“I don't need you to be mad that it happened. I need you to be mad that it just like... happens.”
― Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age

“in medical research is a data gap. 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) to pass itself off as ‘gender neutral’. This is what de Beauvoir meant when she said that men confuse their own point of view with the absolute truth.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men