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Caveat I listened to the audible. It definitely felt like a lot of data being spit out and some of it being inferences or causations of design and not always the intention of excluding women. With that said just like most reviews there really isn’t any resolution on the book on how to solve the issue other than maybe having women in more fields it appears.

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2.0

It feels odd to give a low rating to a book about such an important topic, but I can't give it more than 2 stars. I don't regret reading it, but it didn't leave enough of an impact on me for me to recommend it.

I wish she would have discussed the examples/topics more and not just accounted for them, considering what a complex issue it can be. It often felt like she dropped interesting information and then quickly moved on to the next topic.

While I understand that the author maybe didn't want to leave anything out it could have been half as long and still made the same points. It had some really eye-opening and scary examples, but they got tangled up and nearly forgotten about because of the large amount of facts and examples.

Speaking of leaving things out- I do find it weird that the author didn't find the place to mention trans people, since it's very important considering the topic. The book came across as very black-and-white and didn't really mention the complexity of having everything (car sears, for example) adapted to as many people as possible. I really wish she would've discussed this further.

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