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A review by katiedreads
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
5.0
Enlightening, Frustrating and Heartbreaking. This provides some horrifying and eye opening examples or where the data collection gap is real between men and women (e.g. drug testing) or where the data is there but instead of changing the solution to the issue, women are expected to just ... be more like a man to resolve said issues (e.g. use of public transport). This book argues that how women are treated isn’t really due to the evil patriarchy, nothing so overt but something a lot more heartbreaking, that the world is designed by men for men and they don't even think about women and their differences and they don't think to even ask women. This book makes you angry, sad and left wondering what you can do about it. That is the reason it is not perfect for me, from a grass root point you are left wondering what can I do? The author gives no real guidance or solutions unless it is huge governmental/corporate solutions. Also the amount of statistics fired at you does leave you reeling and having to re-read these sections over and over. But it is informative, emotive and leaves you wanting the change the status quo.