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A review by dnietoperafan
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
What a read.
Never have I read something so necessary and important. All the data Criado Pérez has and hasn't been able to collect is shocking to say the least. With such an ease to explain, she takes your hand and walks you through the data-empty spaces society has deemed 'not popular enough' to fill. Intelligently, she asks why.
Why are we not collecting data?
Why are the needs of half the world's population deemed 'not common enough' to satisfy?
Why are we not acting when we already have the evidence and data to back up a solution?
From medical diagnosis, to appliances' designs; from society's infrastructure, to political systems; Criado Pérez draws a very clear (almost transparent) diagram on how women and female bodies are subject to indirect and direct discrimination in every corner of our lives. She urges for diversity, to fill so many data gaps that could make life better for EVERYONE. I could almost hear her screams of outrage... or maybe they were my own.
Please. Everyone. Read this book. It might be one of the most important pieces of non-fiction to grace my shelves.
Never have I read something so necessary and important. All the data Criado Pérez has and hasn't been able to collect is shocking to say the least. With such an ease to explain, she takes your hand and walks you through the data-empty spaces society has deemed 'not popular enough' to fill. Intelligently, she asks why.
Why are we not collecting data?
Why are the needs of half the world's population deemed 'not common enough' to satisfy?
Why are we not acting when we already have the evidence and data to back up a solution?
From medical diagnosis, to appliances' designs; from society's infrastructure, to political systems; Criado Pérez draws a very clear (almost transparent) diagram on how women and female bodies are subject to indirect and direct discrimination in every corner of our lives. She urges for diversity, to fill so many data gaps that could make life better for EVERYONE. I could almost hear her screams of outrage... or maybe they were my own.
Please. Everyone. Read this book. It might be one of the most important pieces of non-fiction to grace my shelves.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Sexism