Sema’s Reviews > Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men > Status Update
Sema
is 30% done
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.
— May 02, 2026 05:53PM
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.
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Sema
is 60% done
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.
— May 03, 2026 12:43AM
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.
Sema
is 50% done
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.
— May 03, 2026 12:43AM
Sema
is 44% done
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
— May 02, 2026 05:54PM
Means we also miss sexual violence in the work place
Sema
is 40% done
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.
— May 02, 2026 05:54PM
Sema
is 35% done
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…
— May 02, 2026 05:53PM
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…
Sema
is 21% done
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.
— Apr 25, 2026 11:01AM
Countries in poverty also struggle where women “can go anywhere” but women require privacy or specific places to go.
Sema
is 18% done
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
— Apr 25, 2026 11:01AM
Male biased design
Sema
is 15% done
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
— Apr 25, 2026 11:00AM
(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
Sema
is 10% done
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.
— Apr 25, 2026 08:17AM
Sema
is 5% done
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.
— Apr 25, 2026 08:17AM
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.
