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inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This book massively opened my eyes to how women are systematically ignored and women are all living in ways that have been designed for men. One of the things that women can all relate to are the queues for women's toilets. It is a well-known fact that women take longer on average in the toilet due to many reasons and those that are individual to women. Therefore, why do the majority of all toilets in restaurants, theatres, cinema's shops have the same number of toilets for men and women?
Here are just some incredible facts from Caroline's book:
· 24 October 1975 became Women's day of rest in Iceland. Men in Iceland struggle for one day as they do all the work that invisible women do.
· In Korea, women work 34 minutes a day more than men on average.
· In 2010, US Scientists did a study which showed that women do significantly more unpaid work than men. Canada looked in this in 2016 and found it was solely because of women's care burden.
· Sheryl Standberg, when she was the COO at Google in 2014, she was pregnant and really struggled with the walk from the car park to the building, Sergey Brin changed this immediately so there was parking at the front for pregnant women. Sheryl was embarrassed that she had not thought of this before. This highlighted a data gap because neither the founders or Sheryl had thought about the walking from a pregnant ladies point of view.
· In Argentina, there is a hidden gender bias in which men are four times more likely to be employed and therefore able to get a tax rebate, compared to women who are self-employed and the tax system.
· The female body is not the reason why women get raped. It happens, not because of sex but gender. Also, domestic violence increases when conflicts break out, in the Bosnian conflict, 60,000 women were raped over a three year period.
· It took about 2 hours for Diana Taimina to solve a mathematic problem that had baffled mathematicians for over a century.
She also states that the solution for the sex and gender data gap, is that we have to close the female representation gap.
Caroline Criado Perez finishes her incredible book by saying that as history as shown, in order to help solve the sex and gender data gap, "all people need to do, is ask women". I think this is extremely powerful and I could not agree more.
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