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.
As a teacher, one thing I’d say is that while boys often act out when they get distracted, what we see with girls is classic daydreamy behavior… so she’s paying attention, and then suddenly another student will do something disruptive, and instead of her attention snapping back to the lesson, we lose her looking out the window. Enough that it is having an impact on her grade/ability to relate to others. Then we start watching more closely (some kids just daydream! Just like some kids just get bored and mess around.)
Girls are underdiagnosed because their behavior (usually) isn’t disruptive; boys are massively overdiagnosed because parents sometimes are looking for a medical solution to their kids just being kids, as well as biases from within the system.