Product designers use a “one-size-fits-all” approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software, when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. Examining the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more, Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women’s lives. And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias, in time, in money, and often with their lives.Ĭelebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates this shocking root cause of gender inequality in the award-winning, #1 international bestseller Invisible Women.

But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. Winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book PrizeĪ landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women, now in paperbackĭata is fundamental to the modern world.

Winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

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