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Summary
Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our
everyday lives
'A game-changer; an uncompromising blitz of facts, sad,
mad, bad and funny, making an unanswerable case and doing so
brilliantly… the ambition and scope – and sheer
originality – of
Invisible Women is huge'
The Times
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand,
where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your
body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be
seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of
work you do are not recognised or valued.
If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that
you're a woman.
Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely
built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the
population. It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in
our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic
discrimination against women, and that has created a
pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on
women’s lives.From government policy and medical
research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the
media,
Invisible Women reveals the biased data that
excludes women. Award-winning campaigner and writer Caroline Criado Perez
brings together for the first time an impressive range of
case studies, stories and new research from across the world
that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten,
and the impact this has on their health and well-being. In
making the case for change, this powerful and provocative
book will make you see the world anew.