Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

BATB score: 6.6/10 🌸

I truly admire the effort in writing this comprehensive, thoroughly researched book, must have taken ages! kudos kudos 👏

Best to: this book is a great opening, pinpointing all the gender gaps and its implications, data-driven, fully-backed, completely-supported; yet, my only problem is that there are no next steps; what can I do? what difference can I make (other than being super aware - 300-pages of awareness)?

Best for: iPhones are too heavy for women’s hands, car safety is designed with male-dummies, full-body medical PPE suits has a zipper for male to pee (but females must strip down the whole thing), police vests are not made for boobs, Hillary Clinton is too ‘ambitious’

Best as: it sucks to be born female; I feel discouraged (more than empowered) after reading this book 🥹

Best quotes: “there is evidence that women can to a certain extent accept men as role models, men won’t do the same for women”

“Well-behaved women seldom make history”

“Women are told to watch their tone, to step back. They are called bossy, abrasive, strident, aggressive, emotional and irrational. Out of all these words, only aggressive appeared in men’s reviews at all - ‘twice with an exhortation to be more of it’.”

“It’s not always easy to convince someone a need exists if they don’t have that need themselves.”

“If a woman wants to be seen as competent she has to give up being seen as warm”

“Sheryl Sandberg’s […] Lean In, is for women to buckle up and push through. […] the onus is on those of us who feel able to weather the storm, to do so. It is an ordeal that our generation of women needs to go through in order that the women who come after us don’t.” - and who is that? 🫠