Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez: Conversation Starters

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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez: Conversation Starters

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is written by Human Rights campaigner and feminist author, Caroline Criado-Perez. The book was declared The Sunday Times Bestseller. It also won several awards, such as the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2019, Readers' Choice Books Are My Bag Award 2019, FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2019, Book of the Year Award 2019, and The Times Current Affairs Book of the Year 2019.

Perez has written this book to create a world where men and women are treated equally. From daily lives to politics, she conveys research and statistical findings on how women are still treated as the second sex.

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EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
and the characters and its world still live on.
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
bring us beneath the surface of the page
and invite us into the world that lives on.

These questions can be used to create hours of conversation:

• Foster a deeper understanding of the book
• Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups
• Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately
• Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Daily Books
• Release date: Nov 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220219075

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Introducing Invisible Women

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, written by Caroline Criado-Perez, aims to change the world and create a truly equal society. The book's core argument is that the gender data gap existed because the data was not collected separately from men and women. The author argues that males are considered the default sex, and thus, the world we currently inhabit is designed by men for men. She states that gender-neutral doesn't necessarily mean gender-equal. She proves her point by pointing to many examples that show women have different priorities and needs. She has broadly categorized the book into five distinct segments and details how gender inequality stays a major root cause of an unequal society.

The first segment, Daily Life, talks about the issues faced by women in their routine activities. For example, women's travel habits tend to be more complicated than men's because they do more uncompensated care work. Men usually make a standard to and fro journey. However, part-time workers and carers are often women making several short trips throughout the day. Due to this, women regularly pay more to travel shorter distances as ticket prices in buses and trains are frequently fixed by the journey and not

Reviews for Invisible Women

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This is an excellent short summary of a brilliant book that opened my eyes to the many ways women are expected to adapt in a world designed for men. So many areas of our culture are examined that we blindly accept as women, but also as men. Things like how pain management is handled to how cars are designed with only the male model considered. How different our world would be if women's (and girl's) bodies, needs and desires were considered alongside men's. To be clear, this is not the fault of men. It is the fault of millenia of assumptions that have been imposed on our collective awareness by those in power who need us to behave in a way that extracts the most value from us as individuals without regard to whether it's good for us, our communities or the species.