Leila’s Reviews > Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men > Status Update

… and the existence of sex disaggregated data would certainly make it much harder to keep insisting, in the face of all the evidence to the contrary, that women’s needs can safely be ignored in pursuit of a greater good”

“Closing the gender data gap will not magically fix all the problems faced by women, whether or not they are displaced. That would require a wholesale restructuring of society and an end to male violence. But getting to grips with the reality that gender neutral does not automatically mean gender equal would be an important start …

“Gender sensitive provision is not just about safety, however. It’s also about health. In the UK, homeless shelters can and do request free condoms from the NHS, but they cannot request free menstrual products. As a result, shelters can only provide menstrual products for free if they happen to have spare funds—unlikely—or if they receive a donation”

“Given the steady stream of abuse reports from around the world, perhaps it’s time to recognize the assumption that male staff can work in female facilities as they do in male facilities is another example of where gender neutrality turns into gender discrimination. Perhaps sex segregation needs to extend beyond sanitation facilities…perhaps no male staff should be in positions of power over vulnerable women”

… to a hidden male bias, and it is the current system that is antidemocratic”

“British governments have historically been opposed to [quotas]…as anti democratic. But evidence…shows that political gender quotas don’t lead to the monstrous regiment of incompetent women. In fact, in line with the LSE study on workplace quotas, studies on political quotas have found that…they increase the competence of the political class in general… [they] are nothing more than a corrective …

“In 2015, unpaid care and domestic work in Mexico was valued at 21% [of GDP], higher than manufacturing, commerce, real estate, mining, construction, and transport and storage. An Australian study found that unpaid childcare should… be regarded as [its] largest industry, generating… 345 billion dollars or almost 3 times the financial and insurance services industry, the largest industry in the formal economy”

“The UN estimates that the total value of unpaid childcare services in the US was 3.2 trillion dollars in 2012. Or, approximately, 20% of GDP, valued at 16.2 trillion dollars that year.”

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