Krestik303’s Reviews > Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men > Status Update

[...] social power (being seen as warm and caring) is women's 'consolation prize for renouncing competition with men' [...] Social power for women is therefore intrinsically incompatible with professional power: if a woman wants to be seen as competent she has to give up being seen as warm.

Sweden discovered a male bias in the way they'd been planning youth urban regeneration. The usual procedure was to create spaces for skating, climbing and painting grafitti. The trouble was, it wasn't the 'youth' as a whole who were participating in these. It was almost exclusively the boys. In 2010 before they began work on their next project, city officials asked the girls what they wanted.

// W Sweden <3

[...] women and men respond to similar environmental conditions differently, with women tending to be 'more sensitive than men to signs of danger and social disorder' [...]
This fear impacts on women's mobility and their basic right of access to the city.[...] They avoid specific routes, times and modes of transport. [...]

// absolutely correct. I take a longer trip with a bus to not have to transfer to a subway

The reality of human-on-human lethal violence is that it is overwhelmingly a male occupation. [...] 96% of homicide perpetrators worldwide are male.

// shocking 🫢