ISBN: 9781419735219
Editorial: Abrams
Autor: Perez, Caroline Criado
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 432
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: A landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women, now in paperback Winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book PrizeData is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias, in time, in money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates this shocking root cause of gender inequality in the award-winning, #1 international bestseller Invisible Women. Examining the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more, Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women's lives. Product designers use a "one-size-fits-all" approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software, when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. Cities prioritize men's needs when designing public transportation, roads, and even snow removal, neglecting to consider women's safety or unique responsibilities and travel patterns. And in medical research, women have largely been excluded from studies and textbooks, leaving them chronically misunderstood, mistreated, and misdiagnosed. Built on hundreds of studies in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, highly readable exposé that will change the way you look at the world. Críticas "A blisteringly good book... never less than eye-opening, and frequently staggering."-- "The Bookseller""A diligently researched and clearly written exposé."-- "Booklist""A powerful call to bust the myths and bridge the gap."-- "Nature""An excellent book packed with practical information of the kind required by those attempting to dismantle the patriarchy."-- "The Irish Times""An incredible book."-- "Roman Mars, 99% Invisible""As Invisible Women illuminates, in an almost overwhelming way, communities pay tremendous costs for the gender data gap: costs of income, time, women's health, and sometimes women's lives."-- "Bustle""Brilliant ... Invisible Women lays out in impressive detail the many ways that human beings are presumed to be male, as well as the wide-reaching effects of this distorted view of humanity."-- "Katha Pollitt, The Nation""Brilliant."-- "The Economist""Criado Perez doesn't set out to prove a vast conspiracy; she simply wields data like a laser, slicing cleanly through the fog of unconscious and unthinking preferences."-- "The Guardian""Even with all the progress women have made in the last few decades, Invisible Women proves we still have a long way to go. Reading this book--preferably in a comfortably warm room--is the first step."-- "PureWow""Feminist campaigner, Caroline Criado-Perez left us gobsmacked with Invisible Women, an in-depth look at how women are (still) excluded in society." -- "Refinery29 (UK)""Shocking, yet essential, reading."-- "Stylist""The most important book I have ever read."-- "Women You Should Know""There's a sense of rage simmering beneath the surface of Invisible Women, every now and then it bubbles up in the text, but the book's force doesn't derive from the power of its rhetoric - instead it's the steady, unrelenting accumulation of evidence, the sheer weight of her argument. ... Reading Invisible Women one might experience, as I did, the dizzying sensation that so many of my own stories, so many of my friends' stories, so many incidents I had experienced as discrete and unrelated - at work, at home, on the
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Perez, Caroline Criado
- Editorial: Abrams
- N° Paginas: 432
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
