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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
3.25
dark informative reflective medium-paced
I read this book for my work's bookclub. This book was very educational and did a good job highlighting the widespread data that excludes women—and in many instances, inadvertently (or intentionally) causes harm to them. The author did an excellent job of pulling on available statistics as well as extrapolating information from the data gaps. The chapter on GDP was particularly interesting and insightful to me, and I felt the author did an excellent job explaining how women's paid vs. unpaid labor directly influences the national and global economy. That being said, there were some chapters where the author called attention to data gaps, and in order to draw conclusions, relied on gender essentialism or gender essentialist-adjacent concepts that did not always sit right with me. Overall, though, I appreciated that the book was very thorough in criticizing the "male default " and explaining how harmful it is to exclude women from the research we do and the data we collect. I think it's a great starting point for learning about the inherent—and often invisible—ways that the patriarchy influences every aspect of our lives.
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