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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by Caroline Criado Pérez
What a tough book to read! Perez sheds light on the 'Gender Data Gap' and urges us to not just consider women's differences and needs but to collect and use sex disaggregated data to inform those considerations. Unfortunately, it rings true that women are just not taken into account in the design of many areas.
Her points aren't always seamless, sometimes she describes a very robotic/economic society where women shouldn't have to be doing unpaid/unequal care work and at other times she describes how our workplaces should have enough maternity & family leave to allow mothers to care for their babies without the stress and loss of leaving the labor force. Or how city transit planning should take into account womens travel patterns that include unpaid work. (maybe these aren't actually that different).
Her points aren't always seamless, sometimes she describes a very robotic/economic society where women shouldn't have to be doing unpaid/unequal care work and at other times she describes how our workplaces should have enough maternity & family leave to allow mothers to care for their babies without the stress and loss of leaving the labor force. Or how city transit planning should take into account womens travel patterns that include unpaid work. (maybe these aren't actually that different).