Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Just infuriating

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

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I picked this up for a few reasons. First, I am a data scientist so I like anything that looks at large data sets and analyzes it. Two, I’m trying to learn about all of my own biases and the privileges that those entail. This book is enraging. I’m not sure how or why women tolerate any of us. This book is about all of the different ways women are excluded from the narrative, usually without their knowledge and certainly without their consent. For example, […]

“Gender equality is the unfinished business of the 21st Century”

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

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A friend of mine recommended Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (2019) by Caroline Criado Perez to me, and it sounded like something I would find interesting. I’ve read a number of feminist books that have been pretty eye opening. In fact, going into this book, I suspected there wouldn’t be much that would surprise me. I was wrong. Criado Perez hits a wide variety of topics, some familiarly irritating and some astonishing. Because I’ve been trying to read more with limited time, […]

This is a man’s world

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez

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I first heard about this book when the author, Caroline Criado Perez, was interviewed on the podcast 99% Invisible.  I was intrigued from first listen and paid an exorbitant amount to order it on Amazon (US$30 plus shipping from the UK!). Perez’s book is about two things: 1) the ways in which Western societies were founded on and continue to promote ‘maleness’ as the normative centre; and 2) how maleness at the centre is not just inconvenient for women- statistically 51% of humanity- but in […]

Male as the default human

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

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Our world is run on data. From the economy to healthcare to education we use numbers to allocate resources and make decisions. But there’s a blindspot in our data, and it’s huge: gender. Data doesn’t take women into account and uses men as the default human, leading to bias and discrimination across the board. Women pay for this bias in time, in money, and often with their lives. Caroline Criado Perez has gathered as much data as possible (often difficult because such data doesn’t always […]

I’m Glad I Read It But I Wish Someone Else Had Written It

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

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Best for: People looking for hard facts on how the lack of data collected about women harms us. In a nutshell: Much of ruling society treats (cis) men as the default, dismissing the needs of women as abnormal. This screws us over. Worth quoting: “Like so many of the decisions to exclude women in the interests of simplicity, from architecture to medical research, this conclusion could only be reached in a culture that conceives of men as the default human and women as a niche […]



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