Invisible Women: Quotes
Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Book by Caroline Criado Perez
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Summary
Invisible Women exposes the gender data gap that underlies our male-default world, revealing the hidden ways in which the failure to collect data on women's lives leads to bias, discrimination, and disadvantage in everything from healthcare to the workplace to public policy - and offers a roadmap for closing this gap to build a more equitable future for all.
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These are the best quotes from Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. If you want to read a full summary of this book for free, click here.
"A woman's work is never done - or counted"
"Globally women do three times the amount of unpaid care work men do; according to the IMF, this can be further subdivided into twice as much childcare and four times as much housework."
Section: 2, Chapter: 3
"Women Are Not Just Smaller Men"
"Sex differences appear even in our cells: in blood-serum biomarkers for autism; in proteins; in immune cells used to convey pain signals; in how cells die following a stroke. A recent study also found a significant sex difference in the 'expression of a gene found to be important for drug metabolism'. Sex differences in the presentation and outcome of Parkinson's disease, stroke and brain ischaemia (insufficient blood flow to the brain) have also been tracked all the way to our cells, and there is growing evidence of a sex difference in the ageing of the blood vessels, 'with inevitable implications for health problems, examination and treatment'."
Section: 4, Chapter: 10
"Womenomics: The Costs of Excluding Women's Work"
"If we really want to start designing transport systems that serve women as well as men, it's no good designing transport infrastructure in isolation, cautions Sánchez de Madariaga, because women's mobility is also an issue of overarching planning policy: specifically, the creation of 'mixed use' areas. And mixed-use areas fly in the face of traditional planning norms that, in many countries, legally divide cities into commercial, residential and industrial single-use areas, a practice that is called zoning. Zoning dates back to antiquity (what was allowed on either side of the city walls, for example), but it wasn't until the Industrial Revolution that we started to see the kind of explicit division of what could be built where that legally separated where you live from where you might work."
Section: 5, Chapter: 12
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