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Invisible Women Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Perez

#1 International Bestseller Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as th...

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The Ezra Klein Show

ElErian said he had read and reread the book, noting that it highlighted how a world built by men for men discriminates against women and supplied powerful examples for arguing the importance of diversity.

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Invisible Women is a book that I've read and reread. It reminds you of what a world made by men for men discriminates against women, and it provides you examples and stories when you're trying to conv...

— Episode: Three Signals We’ve Entered a New Econom...

Episode: Three Signals We’ve Entered a New Economic Era

ElErian said he had read and reread the book, noting that it highlighted how a world built by men for men discriminates against women and supplied powerful examples for arguing the importance of diversity.

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Invisible Women is a book that I've read and reread. It reminds you of what a world made by men for men discriminates against women, and it provides you examples and stories when you're trying to convince people about the importance of diversity that are very powerful.

Modern Wisdom

He mentioned Caroline Criado Perez's book "Invisible Women" where she writes about how much of the built environment, tools, norms, medical defaults, crash test dummies, and surgical instruments are constructed for a male default.

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Which is another great book, Invisible Women

— Episode: #732 - Mary Harrington - Why You Shouldn...

Episode: #732 - Mary Harrington - Why You Shouldn’t Share Y...

He mentioned Caroline Criado Perez's book "Invisible Women" where she writes about how much of the built environment, tools, norms, medical defaults, crash test dummies, and surgical instruments are constructed for a male default.

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Which is another great book, Invisible Women

Episode: #570 - Helen Lewis - Investigating The World Of Mo...

The hosts referred to the book to illustrate how medical studies often exclude women, leading to gender bias in health research.

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It was an established problem ... that is actually one of the things that my friend, Carolyn Criado Perez wrote in her book, Invisible Women, that one of the things that these studies won't do often, they will often exclude women from them.

99% Invisible

It discussed how data bias in design often ignores women, leading to negative consequences in various areas such as healthcare, transport, and product design.

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My book is called Invisible Women exposing data bias. No, wait, sorry. That's the British title. What the f*** is the American title? The copy I have is called Invisible Women, Data Bias in a World De...

— Episode: Invisible Women

Episode: Invisible Women

It discussed how data bias in design often ignores women, leading to negative consequences in various areas such as healthcare, transport, and product design.

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My book is called Invisible Women exposing data bias. No, wait, sorry. That's the British title. What the f*** is the American title? The copy I have is called Invisible Women, Data Bias in a World Designed for Men.

Caroline Criado Perez's book is called Invisible Women Data Bias in a World Designed for Men.

It's available wherever books are sold. And I highly recommend you go out and buy a copy because it's filled with hundreds of other examples of gender data bias that will have you questioning the default cis man design assumptions of the world around you.

It's truly illuminating and infuriating and inspiring all at the same time.

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