Invisible Women - Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster and award-winning feminist campaigner. Her most notable campaigns have included co-founding The Women’s Room, getting a woman on Bank of England banknotes, forcing Twitter to revise its procedures for dealing with abuse and successfully campaigning for a statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett to be erected in Parliament Square. She was the 2013 recipient of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year Award, and was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015. Invisible Women has won the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, the Books Are My Bag Readers’ Choice Award and the Royal Society Science Book Prize. She lives in London. Klappentext Combining data crunching and analysis, personal stories and an international pool of examples, the massive extent to which policy, healthcare provision and a range of other infrastructural aspects of life are based on gender discriminatory information is addressed authoritatively here. Zusammenfassung *THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* *OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD* Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives. ' HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin Moran Imagine a world where... · Your phone is too big for your hand · Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body · In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you're a woman. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences. 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 profound impact this has on us all. Find out more in Caroline's new podcast, Visible Women . 'A book that changes the way you see the world' Sunday Times 'Revelatory, frightening, hopeful' Jeanette Winterson ...

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Criado-Perez, Caroline Criado Perez
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781784706289
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-628-9
• No. of pages: 411
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Political activism, Press & journalism, Gender studies: women, Impact of science & technology on society, Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments, Impact of science and technology on society, Gender studies: women and girls, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, International Women’s Day, Political activism / Political engagement