A review by bibliophilecats
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

Did not finish book. Stopped at 42%.

A few new issue I did not know or think about before (what is a work expense, size of piano keys)

But on the whole I knew about most issues and they have been known for years and years (most notably gender pay gap) but change does not happen or at a snails pace. This probably does mean one should work harder to counteract then and be louder, but for me it only means being angry but having no option to change anything meaningfully or directly and thus this leads to frustration (the book even, to me, made it seem like with algorythms and so-called AI, the bias will only be strengthened now). This book made me depressed and feeling helpless because I am shown that the world is made to discriminate me and make everything harder for me and there is hardly anything I can do (not least in part due to many of the issues listed in the book). A frustrating vicious cycle.

Positive:

Propably by being British, the book for once is not only US centric. I especially was interrested in data from my own country but I was happy to see non Western countries also represented, some of them not only mentioned in a list of "also here" but talked about in more detail (though I have a feeling that they are still underrepresented compared the North American and European countries).