Invisible women : exposing data bias in a world designed for men / Caroline Criado Perez.

  • Criado-Perez, Caroline
Date:
2019
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Chatto & Windus, 2019.

Physical description

xv, 411 pages ; 24 cm

Contents

Preface -- Introduction: the default male -- Part I: Daily life -- Chapter 1: Can snow-clearing be sexist? -- Chapter 2: Gender neutral with urinals -- Part II: The workplace -- Chapter 3: The long friday -- Chapter 4: The myth of meritocracy -- Chapter 5: The Henry Higgins effect -- Chapter 6: Being worth less than a shoe -- Part III: Design -- Chapter 7: The plough hypothesis -- Chapter 8: One-size-fits-men -- Chapter 9: A sea of dudes -- Part IV: Going to the doctor -- Chapter 10: The drugs don't work -- Chapter 11: Yentl syndrome -- Part V: Public life -- Chapter 12: A costless resource to exploit -- Chapter 13: from purse to wallet -- Chapter 14: Women's rights are human rights -- Part VI: When it goes wrong -- Chapter 15: Who will rebuild? -- Chapter 16: It's not the disaster that kills you -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Index.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-391) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    CBW.AA10
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781784741723
  • 1784741728
  • 9781784742928
  • 1784742929