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

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And so I really believe, actually what really opened my eyes is the book, um, Invisible Women from, um, Caroline Criado Perez.

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Uh, because she really describes the gender data gap, which is really interesting.

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Yeah, I think I started reading the book Invisible Women a few years ago when it came out by Caroline Criado Perez.

And I actually had to stop reading it because it made me so angry.

um it was frustrating the amount of of points in life where things have been tested on men and the data just extrapolated to women and that just can't be the case you know we have um periods we have the menopause we have pregnancy we have postpartum we have all these different stages in our lives where we have massive hormonal fluctuations and that obviously will impact us in one way or another not only that physiologically we are very different you know the i think the the crash test dummies in cars that was quite an eye-opening um frustration for me just to find out that seat belts were tested on men so women were more likely to die in a crash um and obviously you know to some regard it's not as serious as that fine but equally that's kind of where we've ended up being like the second class citizen, basically.

Well, you know, I, I, I think there is a data bias in favor of, of men that is, um, kind of largely persistent.

There was a, a book written by Caroline Criado Perez a number of years ago called Invisible Women, and she lays out, you know, kind of how this, this starts and how it ends.

Um, you know, in med school, the, the quote, unquote "norm" is, is men.

You know, when we're talking about dosing for medications, it's largely based on the male body rather than the female body.

Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? I'm thinking of Caroline Criado Perez.

She had that book, Invisible Women, about how the whole world was kind of made from safety belts to whatever else in a man's image, so to speak, and that women's physique had not been taken into account.

So in a lot of ways, it can be considered progress and that investment is going into it.

And in another, of course, some of the players not loving it at the moment.

I just started

reading a nonfiction book called Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez.

And it's, I don't know, I'm like really into nonfictions now, apparently.

I know, I love this for you.

So there's something in how technology is developed and then implemented that also excludes the participation of half the sky.

So there's a very powerful piece of writing, Invisible Women, by Caroline Perez, which documents some of these instances.

But to the broader provocation of, do we see this in technology? Absolutely, yes.

And very much the inheritance of how systems in other domains of science.