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Invisible Women - Online Essay

Invisible Women

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. Caroline Criado Perez. London: Chatto & Windus, 2019. 432

Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women's lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and the unconscious data gap when natural disasters and infectious diseases happen.

This is really an eye-opening book backed by data (and ironically, by a lack of available data) to make a profound point. I came to this book believing myself already to be proactive about women's rights and issues, but learned that the problem runs so ...

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that how our society ignores women makes how they are treated inevitable. It says that the reason behind the phenomenon is most of the people who get to make the decisions that make a difference in the world are men - and it isn't that men consciously go out of their way to make life difficult for women (Maybe sometimes). But rather, they do this because they are men and as such they design the world to work for them. These men don't even notice the world is ill-suited for women because they simply don't inhabit the same world that women inhabit.

The instance that will stay with me from this book was about women's plight when pandemics hit. Caroline Criado Perez states in her book that:

"Take Sierra Leone, the country at the heart of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, and which has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world: 1,360 mothers die per every 100,00 live births (for comparison, the OECD average is fourteen per 100,000), and one in seventeen mothers have a lifetime ...

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