Invisible Women

Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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 …

Livre relié, 432 pages

Langue : English

Publié 7 mars 2019 par Vintage Publishing.

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978-1-78474-292-8
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Sujets
  • Gender Bias

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Essential Reading For All Men

If your blood doesn't boil reading this, then you're part of the problem, it should be mandatory reading for all males. It's page after page of unremitting evidence of the gender data gap, and how it effects every part of a woman's life; some of it simply beggars belief. I was expecting a dry and difficult to engage with wall of text, but it was very accessible and very well written; if you're into evidence, then the last third of the book is links to all the sources of the statistics and what not.

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