The full title is ‘Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men’
Here is the description:
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. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you’re a woman.
Invisible Women 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.
Award-winning campaigner and writer Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are excluded from the very building blocks of the world we live in, and the impact this has on their health and wellbeing. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media – Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women. In making the case for change, this powerful and provocative book will make you see the world anew.
I’m still in the process of getting diagnosed as an adult, but I generally say that I have a bunch of anxiety keeping the ADHD in check.
Like, I’m not late for appointments… But only because I have 12 alarms and didn’t sleep the night before and any sleep I did get was populated by a fear that I was going to oversleep through my appointment and then I still left too late to make it on time so I ran.
My assignments aren’t late… Because when I realized I put it off too long, I stayed awake all night writing in a panic, and I only reread it 8 times instead of the 12 times I wanted to.
I don’t lose things… Because I put them in the same place, every day and if they aren’t there I get a little panicked and can’t find it, even if I walked by it multiple times.
Speaking of walking by, I need to try and do things the first time I see them, because if I let myself sit down, that chore vanishes.