Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez

Her first book, Do it Like a Woman, was published in 2015.

Caroline was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015. Her most notable campaigns have included co-founding The Women's Room, getting a woman on Bank of England banknotes, forcing Twitter to revise its procedures for dealing with abuse and successfully campaigning for a statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett to be erected in Parliament Square. About the authorĬaroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster and award-winning feminist campaigner. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women. They are absolutely everywhere and always have been. The patient campaign has only just got the NHS to add one sentence about recurrent or chronic UTI to their web page. 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. What’s odd about women’s invisibility is that women aren’t a minority. Kidney stone treatment for women ( and gaslighting urologists) is another area where women are not treated the same as men and pain not recognised. Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.

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.

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez