[READ] Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Des

Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued.<br /><br /><b>If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.</b><br /><br /><i>Invisible Women </i>shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives.<br /><br />From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, <i>Invisible Women</i> reveals the biased data that excludes women.<br /><br />Award-winning campaigner and writer Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the f