Nicole

“Incidentally, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the coal mining industry, which during the 2016 election became the shibboleth for (implicitly male) working-class jobs, provides 53,420 jobs in total, at a median annual wage of $59,380.89 Compare this to the majority female 924,640-strong cleaning and housekeeper workforce, whose median annual income is $21,820.90 So who’s the real working class?”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Tech’s love affair with the myth of meritocracy is ironic for an industry so in thrall to the potential of Big Data, because this is a rare case where the data actually exists. But if in Silicon Valley meritocracy is a religion, its God is a white male Harvard dropout.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Urban planning that fails to account for women's risk of being sexually assaulted is a clear violation of women's equal right to public spaces...”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men