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

Caroline Criado Perez

Mar 2019 · Vintage Digital · Narrated by Caroline Criado Perez

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Brought to you by Penguin.

The audiobook edition of Invisible Women, read by Caroline Criado Perez.

**Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2019**
**Winner of the Readers' Choice Books Are My Bag Award 2019**
**Winner of the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2019 Book of the Year Award 2019**
**The Times Current Affairs Book of the Year 2019**

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.

Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives.

© Caroline Criado Perez 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019

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4.6

40 reviews

8hoovesbetter

October 21, 2019

I'm only about half way through this and its message is mind-blowing to me - and I thought I knew a bit about this topic. Who knew that even changing the snow-clearing priorities would save (women's) lives (and a local council's and health services' money)? This turns so many apparently equal services on their head. Like loos: men's loos and women's have equal floor space. What's wrong with that? Women, for various reasons including child and older people caring responsibilities and personal health issues, take 2.3 times longer than men using the facilities. Yes, that's why we always have to queue. Look more closely at supposed "equality"? Sports grants that favour boys' activities over girls'... not intentionally, but having a massive effect on girls by discouraging them from taking part in sport when they are young, so causing them health issues as they age. This is not "anti-men", it's pro genuine equality - so everyone is better off, has equal access to facilities, gets treated fairly. Gripping! Revolutionary! Eye-opening! A real "must read" for anyone who plans for and deals with people.

Mari Stella

March 25, 2020

This book is scarily revealing...I couldn't believe how much I recognised myself and my daily life into reading this and to finally being able to name and recognise the wrong patterns that define our lives for just being who we were born. Thank you, Caroline, for giving us a voice, and hopefully helping women in sticking together instead of compete with each other and create further disparity.

Mignon Wells

June 19, 2021

I know so much of what this book covers but have spent a lifetime avoiding acknowledging the facts. This is an important book that is well written - and I particularly like that the audiobook is read by the author.

About the author

Caroline Criado Perez (Author, Reader)
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.

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