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

Did not finish book. Stopped at 23%.

Transphobic and bioessentialist.
In the intro the author states:

"But although I talk about both sex and gender throughout, I use gender data gap as an overarching term because sex is not the reason women are excluded from data. Gender is. In naming the phenomenon that is causing so much damage to so many women’s lives, I want to be clear about the root cause and, contrary to many claims you will read in these pages, the female body is not the problem. The problem is the social meaning that we ascribe to that body, and a socially determined failure to account for it."

She gets it right here! Trans women are women, and the same oppressive system that hurts cis women also hurts trans women. Because patriarchy does not care what kind of woman you are, only that you are not a man.

But later she says:

"The result is that when ‘brilliance’ is considered a requirement for a job, what is really meant is ‘a penis’."

Going against what she previous asserted she would do. Many trans women have penises and yet are still held back and overlooked by the same oppressive system.

I won’t even go into how she overlooks trans men and non binary people in the section talking about pregnancy…

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia