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“The reporting rate is even lower in New York City, with an estimated 96% of sexual harassment and 86% of sexual assaults in the subway system going unreported, while in London, where a fifth of women have reportedly been physically assaulted while using public transport, a 2017 study found that 'around 90% of people who experience unwanted sexual behavior would not report it... Enough women have experienced the sharp shift from 'Smile, love, it might never happen,' to 'Fuck you bitch why are you ignoring me?'... But all too often the blame is out on the women themselves for feeling fearful, rather than on planners for designing urban spaces and transit environments that make them feel unsafe... Women are often scared in public spaces. In fact, they are around twice as likely to be scared as men. And, rather unusually, we have the data to prove it.”
― 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

“In the EU, 25% of women cite care work as their reason for not being in the paid labour force. This compares to 3% of men.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“An analysis of 248 performance reviews collected from a variety of US-based tech companies found that women receive negative personality criticism that men simply don’t.7 Women are told to watch their tone, to step back. They are called bossy, abrasive, strident, aggressive, emotional and irrational. Out of all these words, only aggressive appeared in men’s reviews at all – ‘twice with an exhortation to be more of it’.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men