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

challenging funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Let me just start by saying, I think everyone could benefit from reading this book (I definitely did).

That said, what is it even about? In Invisible Women, Criado Pérez exposes how our modern world was created by, for, and around white middle class men, how this creates a gender data gap, and how it is being perpetuated.

This gender data gap is not only not paying active attention to women, not only thinking of them as the other sex or ‘niche’, but it is actively making daily life more difficult, excluding them by design, and, in many cases, ending their lives.

Good news is, it doesn’t have to be that way, as the author says (specifically about the unpaid work women do, but I think we could apply it to many other issues), ‘[i]t is built into the system we have created - and it could just as easily be built out of it. We just need the will to start collecting the data, and then designing our economy around reality rather than a male-biased confection.’

In short, I think this book is an amazing resource and work of research, it is packed to the brim with data and lots of new information. That definitely makes it a bit of a heavy read, but I didn’t find the language to be overly complicated, nor was there a lot of technical terms (and the ones that couldn’t help but be there, were explained).