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Because the church could not bend, it cracked

So much in the first chapter….work, no work, pig, no pig, witch and outlaw, wife no wife, baby no baby, witch, new wife. Apparently the point?

Gender neutral does not equal gender equal bridging the data gap will make it harder to ignore that ignoring women’s needs and rights is OK for the greater good
In communities, the people leading advocacy and community work are often women

Women most most likely to suffer after effects of a disaster. Least safe during disaster fallout.
Homelessness is generally seen as a male problem, it is also assumed that men are likely to leave and become a refugee because of political situation. Women refugee and homeless often because of escaping violence, interpersonal, and familial

Discussion of poverty, statistics, and how we measure household money. We make a lot of assumptions about how male and female households spend their money where it goes and how we measure the poverty level they have.
Don’t ignore misogyny. Gender Data gap also leads to a general sense that women’s ambition is not appropriate, because we never actually measure it.
Governments are better when women are involved.

GDP is a construct and often does not equate to an appropriate number that takes into account time in the household work. It is not impossible to measure this – use survey time used surveys.
Zombie stat is a stat that comes out of nowhere isn’t necessarily backed up, but it’s very hard to get away from.

Prevention is also hindered by failing to account for female socialization. Example from Africa of women not wanting to cough up enough mucus to study and understand if they had a particular disease. Medical people did not explain it and so they did not do it.

Medical studies miss women
Autism rates are lower for girls because the checklist is based on white male boys.
Yentl syndrome is a woman behaving like a man/acting like a man and be behaving like a man doesn’t mean having the same symptoms as a man.

Fuel work made harder by eco friendly materials, making women less likely to adopt clean tech and thus more likely to have negative health and environmental outcomes.

Controversial. Labor agg Data full of gaps.
Most farm work considered field work, so figures miss rearing small animals, etc., and part time agriculture work.
Fuel work made harder by eco friendly materials, making women less likely to adopt clean tech and thus more likely to have negative health and environmental outcomes.

Plough hypothesis: men’s upper body strength 40-60% higher than women’s. More able to operate the plough or control the animal doing so. Not really trainable, including grip strength. Where plough is used, men dominated agriculture. Non-plough work is “stoppable” and thus more conducive to family roles.

Weird impact of unions, and almost no data on sex, so no global figures on women in precarious work. Even though in some studies, women make up 50-60% of this group. Part time and low skill work.
Means we also miss sexual violence in the work place

Higgins effect: Continue to rely on studies of men in work for humanity as a whole. Would take a generation of workforce to get to the same amount of knowledge.

Even orchestral players. Blind auditions.
Belief in your own objectivity makes you more subjective

Office temperature - metabolic rate, 5* colder than men on average.
Female overalls in coast guard, and ppe sizes/regulations…

Women more than 2x more likely to be carers. I wonder how this would look if we just looked at US. Mostly unpaid labor takes up a lot of space in the day.
Long work hours bad for health. Long hours bias because women definitely do it. Except their long hours aren’t recognized in promotion roles.
Allowable work expenses - primarily prioritize those things that help men.

Equal floor space doesn’t mean equal availability. Women use cubicles so half the number of people can use the rest room at the same time than male urinal spaces. And women take a bit longer to use the restroom, so everything is slow.
Countries in poverty also struggle where women “can go anywhere” but women require privacy or specific places to go.

Making gender neutral bathrooms, but including label of urinal, made it geared toward men. Despite equal use of the gender neutral with cubicles
Male biased design

Men more likely to drive, but women more likely to drive-chain
(Sweden swapped the order of snow clearing)
Not including women in planning was an attention gap - tend to focus on peak hours, and employment travel, most often male travel planning - not intentional ignoring of women

Whiteness and maleness are not seen as an identity, because they are and historaically have been universal. So we only notice identity politics on those we have to call out, because their erasure is what made whiteness and maleness universal to begin with.

What is male is universal. What is female is niche.
We call the 1800s the enlightenment when truly it was only enlightening for men. Women had their powers and rights eliminated. We call ancient Greece, the pillar of democracy, when it really only applied to men and women were erased.