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Invisible Women
- Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- Narrateur(s): Caroline Criado Perez
- Durée: 9 h et 25 min
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Wordslut
- A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
- Auteur(s): Amanda Montell
- Narrateur(s): Amanda Montell
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A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them. Montell effortlessly moves between history and popular culture to explore these questions and more. Wordslut gets to the heart of our language, marvels at its elasticity, and sheds much-needed light into the biases that shadow women in our culture and our consciousness.
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Interesting, insightful, relevant
- Écrit par Emma le 2023-09-20
Auteur(s): Amanda Montell
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Men Explain Things to Me
- Auteur(s): Rebecca Solnit
- Narrateur(s): Luci Christian Bell
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In Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit takes on the conversations between men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't. The ultimate problem, she shows in her comic, scathing essay, is female self-doubt and the silencing of women. Rebecca Solnit is the author of fourteen books about civil society, popular power, uprisings, art, environment, place, pleasure, politics, hope, and memory, most recently The Faraway Nearby, a book on empathy and storytelling.
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wrong narrator for this
- Écrit par melander le 2018-03-24
Auteur(s): Rebecca Solnit
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Why Does He Do That?
- Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
- Auteur(s): Lundy Bancroft
- Narrateur(s): Peter Berkrot
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He says he loves you. So...why does he do that? You've asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance to see inside the minds of angry and controlling men---and to change your life. In this groundbreaking book, a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men shows you how to improve, survive, or leave an abusive relationship.
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The only book you need to understand abuse
- Écrit par Anon Ymous le 2020-10-23
Auteur(s): Lundy Bancroft
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What Works
- Gender Equality by Design
- Auteur(s): Iris Bohnet
- Narrateur(s): Laurel Lefkow
- Durée: 9 h et 22 min
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Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts.
Auteur(s): Iris Bohnet
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Do It Like a Woman
- Auteur(s): Caroline Criado-Perez
- Narrateur(s): Caroline Criado-Perez
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Every day women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too often equated with being male. One of the most tenacious campaigners of her generation, Caroline Criado-Perez introduces us to these pioneering women. We meet the first woman to cross the Antarctic alone; a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; a Chilean revolutionary turned politician; and the Iranian journalist who dared to uncover her hair.
Auteur(s): Caroline Criado-Perez
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ROAR
- How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life
- Auteur(s): Stacy T. Sims PhD, Selene Yeager
- Narrateur(s): Vanessa Daniels
- Durée: 8 h et 35 min
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Because most nutrition products and training plans are designed for men, it's no wonder that so many female athletes struggle to reach their full potential. ROAR is a comprehensive, physiology-based nutrition and training guide specifically designed for active women. This book teaches you everything you need to know to adapt your nutrition, hydration, and training to your unique physiology so you can work with, rather than against, your female physiology.
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Every woman and coach should read this book
- Écrit par Mary le 2019-08-22
Auteur(s): Stacy T. Sims PhD, Autres
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Wordslut
- A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
- Auteur(s): Amanda Montell
- Narrateur(s): Amanda Montell
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A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them. Montell effortlessly moves between history and popular culture to explore these questions and more. Wordslut gets to the heart of our language, marvels at its elasticity, and sheds much-needed light into the biases that shadow women in our culture and our consciousness.
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Interesting, insightful, relevant
- Écrit par Emma le 2023-09-20
Auteur(s): Amanda Montell
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Men Explain Things to Me
- Auteur(s): Rebecca Solnit
- Narrateur(s): Luci Christian Bell
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In Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit takes on the conversations between men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't. The ultimate problem, she shows in her comic, scathing essay, is female self-doubt and the silencing of women. Rebecca Solnit is the author of fourteen books about civil society, popular power, uprisings, art, environment, place, pleasure, politics, hope, and memory, most recently The Faraway Nearby, a book on empathy and storytelling.
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wrong narrator for this
- Écrit par melander le 2018-03-24
Auteur(s): Rebecca Solnit
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Why Does He Do That?
- Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
- Auteur(s): Lundy Bancroft
- Narrateur(s): Peter Berkrot
- Durée: 13 h et 32 min
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He says he loves you. So...why does he do that? You've asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance to see inside the minds of angry and controlling men---and to change your life. In this groundbreaking book, a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men shows you how to improve, survive, or leave an abusive relationship.
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The only book you need to understand abuse
- Écrit par Anon Ymous le 2020-10-23
Auteur(s): Lundy Bancroft
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What Works
- Gender Equality by Design
- Auteur(s): Iris Bohnet
- Narrateur(s): Laurel Lefkow
- Durée: 9 h et 22 min
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Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts.
Auteur(s): Iris Bohnet
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Do It Like a Woman
- Auteur(s): Caroline Criado-Perez
- Narrateur(s): Caroline Criado-Perez
- Durée: 8 h et 6 min
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Every day women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too often equated with being male. One of the most tenacious campaigners of her generation, Caroline Criado-Perez introduces us to these pioneering women. We meet the first woman to cross the Antarctic alone; a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; a Chilean revolutionary turned politician; and the Iranian journalist who dared to uncover her hair.
Auteur(s): Caroline Criado-Perez
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ROAR
- How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life
- Auteur(s): Stacy T. Sims PhD, Selene Yeager
- Narrateur(s): Vanessa Daniels
- Durée: 8 h et 35 min
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Because most nutrition products and training plans are designed for men, it's no wonder that so many female athletes struggle to reach their full potential. ROAR is a comprehensive, physiology-based nutrition and training guide specifically designed for active women. This book teaches you everything you need to know to adapt your nutrition, hydration, and training to your unique physiology so you can work with, rather than against, your female physiology.
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Every woman and coach should read this book
- Écrit par Mary le 2019-08-22
Auteur(s): Stacy T. Sims PhD, Autres
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More than a Woman
- Auteur(s): Caitlin Moran
- Narrateur(s): Caitlin Moran
- Durée: 9 h et 31 min
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The author of the international bestseller How to Be a Woman returns with another “hilarious neo-feminist manifesto” (NPR) in which she reflects on parenting, middle-age, marriage, existential crises—and, of course, feminism. As timely as it is hysterically funny, this memoir/manifesto will have listeners laughing out loud, blinking back tears, and redefining their views on feminism and the patriarchy. More Than a Woman is a brutally honest, scathingly funny, and absolutely necessary take on the life of the modern woman—one that only Caitlin Moran can provide.
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Must Love Caitlin Moran
- Écrit par Empress le 2023-02-17
Auteur(s): Caitlin Moran
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Gender and Our Brains
- How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
- Auteur(s): Gina Rippon
- Narrateur(s): Hannah Curtis
- Durée: 15 h et 32 min
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We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions, and behavior? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that surround us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mold our ideas of ourselves.
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A must read
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-06-02
Auteur(s): Gina Rippon
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Capital: Volume 1
- A Critique of Political Economy
- Auteur(s): Karl Marx, Samuel Moore - translation, Edward Aveling - translation
- Narrateur(s): Derek Le Page
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It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Volume 1 appeared (in German) in 1867, and the two subsequent volumes appeared at later dates after the author's death - completed from extensive notes left by Marx himself.
Auteur(s): Karl Marx, Autres
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Misbehaving
- The Making of Behavioral Economics
- Auteur(s): Richard H. Thaler
- Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
- Durée: 13 h et 35 min
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Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth - and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world.
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Great
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-05-14
Auteur(s): Richard H. Thaler
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Rage Becomes Her
- The Power of Women's Anger
- Auteur(s): Soraya Chemaly
- Narrateur(s): Soraya Chemaly
- Durée: 11 h et 3 min
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Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why. We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive or not sensitive enough. Too dowdy or too made-up. Too big or too thin. Sluts or prudes. We are harassed, told we are asking for it, and asked if it would kill us to smile. Yes, yes it would. Contrary to the rhetoric of popular “self-help” and an entire lifetime of being told otherwise, our rage is one of the most important resources we have, our sharpest tool against both personal and political oppression.
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Must read
- Écrit par Stephanie le 2019-05-24
Auteur(s): Soraya Chemaly
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We Should All Be Feminists
- Auteur(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrateur(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Durée: 51 min
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In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
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absolutely loved it, didn't want it to end
- Écrit par Bill le 2021-02-07
Auteur(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Elephant in the Brain
- Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
- Auteur(s): Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
- Narrateur(s): Jeffrey Kafer
- Durée: 10 h et 26 min
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Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus, we don't like to talk, or even think, about the extent of our selfishness. This is "the elephant in the brain".
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Insightful and challenging.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-07-19
Auteur(s): Kevin Simler, Autres
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Man Enough
- Undefining My Masculinity
- Auteur(s): Justin Baldoni
- Narrateur(s): Justin Baldoni
- Durée: 12 h et 36 min
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The effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our time. In this engaging and provocative new book, beloved actor, director, and social activist Justin Baldoni reflects on his own struggles with masculinity. With insight and honesty, he explores a range of difficult, sometimes uncomfortable topics including strength and vulnerability, relationships and marriage, body image, sex and sexuality, racial justice, gender equality, and fatherhood.
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The wokening of Justin Baldoni
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-05-20
Auteur(s): Justin Baldoni
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Frying Plantain
- Auteur(s): Zalika Reid-Benta
- Narrateur(s): Ordena Stephens-Thompson
- Durée: 4 h et 56 min
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Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle - of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too “faas” or too “quiet” or too “bold” or too “soft”. In “Little Jamaica”, Toronto’s Eglinton West neighbourhood, Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold of adulthood, from elementary school to high school graduation, in these 12 interconnected stories.
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I loved it, it was just a bit sad listening to how
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-06-03
Auteur(s): Zalika Reid-Benta
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Quackery
- A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
- Auteur(s): Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
- Narrateur(s): Hillary Huber
- Durée: 10 h et 29 min
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What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine - yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison - was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices.
Auteur(s): Lydia Kang, Autres
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Weapons of Math Destruction
- How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- Auteur(s): Cathy O'Neil
- Narrateur(s): Cathy O'Neil
- Durée: 6 h et 23 min
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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules.
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Amazing Listen!
- Écrit par Kolton Gagnon le 2018-01-08
Auteur(s): Cathy O'Neil
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The Authority Gap
- Why Women Are Taken Less Seriously Than Men and What We Can Do About It
- Auteur(s): Mary Ann Sieghart
- Narrateur(s): Mary Ann Seighhart
- Durée: 10 h et 5 min
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The Authority Gap provides a startling perspective on the unseen bias at work in our everyday lives, to reveal the scale of the gap that still persists between men and women. Would you believe that female US Supreme Court Justices are interrupted four times more often than male ones...96 percent of the time by men? Marshalling a wealth of data with precision and insight, and including interviews with pioneering women, Mary Ann Sieghart exposes unconscious bias in this fresh, feminist take on how to address and counteract systemic sexism in ways that benefit us all.
Auteur(s): Mary Ann Sieghart
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Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, 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 bias in time, money, and often with their lives.
Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women's lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable expose that will change the way you look at the world.
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- Michelle
- 2019-10-06
Should be required listening for all people
Amazing book. This is a world changing book and every person in humanity should be required to hear it.
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- PWsoccer
- 2019-09-05
So glad I listened to this book!
I learned a tremendous amount from this book and I will be thinking about it and talking about it for months if not years. There is a heavy amount of statistics and data that I surely will not remember so I expect to be re-listening in the future. The foreword is challenging to get through due to the high volume of information presented, but the body of the work spends more time fleshing out the details and background. This is a must read!
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- Brittany McShane
- 2019-08-29
Some Facts Are Hard to Swallow
I read this book with a sense of duty. Perez does an excellent job of backing up everything she says from hard statistics. I pushed through as there is an emotional toll reading about how the world is not considerate of your gender in the major social sphere. It’s important to be aware of how women are dismissed in medical research, the typical work week and the disproportionate amount of care work that “naturally” falls on us. A good read, and a mindful read. I would suggest to break up your time reading it, as there is a lot of information to digest, also to keep the rage at bay while you apply the information in this book to your daily life. You’ll be drawing a lot of parallels.
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- Nathaniel
- 2022-09-02
loved it
loved it, eye opening perspectives. she really opened my eyes to the way in which women are intentionally and unintentionally overlooked in our society
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- june mayne
- 2022-03-12
A Must-read
Finally, someone reading at a proper pace. Also, you NEED to read this book: knowing the lack of testing of medication and technology on women will make you rise up and lead the revolution ;)
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- Jonathon Horel
- 2022-03-02
Read This Book!
The information in this book is relevant to everyone and honeslt makes me wonder where else the ways we collect and apply data are failing us. Honestly, everyone should read this book.
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- Rebecca
- 2021-01-02
Easy to read but hard to stomach
A great read about things that I don’t even think about ...or didn’t until I read this book. Now I see it often. If you want to inspire some insight - give this a read or a listen.
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- Danielle
- 2020-09-30
Very eye opening
This book is a must read. It was very frustrating to listen to at times (because of the topic, not the author or books narration) but Perez didn’t leave us hopeless, she highlighted ways we are making change and can continue to do so.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-10-24
An incredible analysis
A fabulous compilation is the issues facing humanity and tying it back to gaps in the data used to analyze and devise solutions. Everyone should read this book and learn a thing or two.
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- Andra
- 2023-10-11
Interesting eye-opening read
I was surprised by some of the facts presented in this book. They are so obvious that I accepted them as facts when, in reality, they were always a male perception of the world. I am wondering where we would be as humanity is women were more present in power positions. Let’s start by educating our sons in being attentive to the other half’s needs.
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- B. Andresen
- 2019-09-11
A statistical fire hose
This won't be a popular review, but here goes. Some fraction of the statistics and studies presented in this book are either misrepresented, misinterpreted, or flat out wrong, and the fraction is significant. If you read/listen to this book with genuine curiosity, you’ll want to check into some of the data that are presented. If you do this, you'll find the narrative summary is sometimes right on, sometimes misleading, and sometimes just plain wrong. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to know prima fascia which is which. The result, for this curious reader anyway, is that I don't have faith that what Perez presents is factually or summarily true. I'm sure there is a lot of good information in this book, but it's impossible to know which are real issues and which are misrepresented to exaggerate the narrative.
Here's one example (and curious readers can and should find others; this review is long enough already): the discussion of the use of Viagra for period pain (PMS/dysmenorrhea). To quote the book directly:
"The primary outcome of a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial of sildenafil citrate, was, ladies, you may want to sit down for this: total pain relief over 4 consecutive hours, with no observed adverse effects. Imagine."
Except that's not what the study showed. The study (in the journal Human Reproduction, 2013, volume 28, pages 2958-2965) showed that a fraction of the women experienced some pain relief (statistically significant) over the 4-hour studied time period. "Total pain relief over 4 hours" – TOPAR4 – is the scale that is used to assess the level of pain relief; it is not a result in and of itself. In fact, the scale goes from 0-20, and the average score for the 13 women in the study was 11.9. There are additional issues: they had a hard time getting women to enroll in the study. Of the 69 women they deemed eligible to participate in the study, only 29 women agreed to do so. This is a smaller number than even the study authors expected and does not support the conclusion that women are just dying to get into these studies, but men prevent them from doing so. Further: the study compared Viagra treatment with placebo. But the standard of care is ibuprofen. We have no way of knowing how that score of 11.9 would compare to treatment with ibuprofen. But the prospects are not encouraging: the authors stated that they wanted to see an improvement in TOPAR4 score of 6.5 units (speculating: perhaps this is a score one would expect with ibuprofen treatment?), but in fact they only saw improvement of 5.3 units. So, the study did not meet its primary endpoint. Perez claims that follow up studies were not funded because 1) Men don't care about menstrual pain; and 2) pharma companies wouldn't fund a study for a generic drug that is off patent. These claims are shaky at best. In fact, it was a man who ran the initial study (Dr Richard Legro) and applied for additional funding. And there are myriad ways for a pharma company to patent new uses of a generic drug (new formulations, for example - which is highly relevant in this case). The real story is 1) There's little if any benefit compared to the existing standard of care (ibuprofen); 2) The demand for this particular treatment, as measured by the number of women who were willing to participate in such a clinical trial, is low; 3) Women may not be terribly inclined to administer Viagra directly into their vaginas (this is how it was administered in the study for reasons of safety and to avoid potential adverse effects) every 4 hours for several days each month while menstruating when they can swallow a pill instead; and 4) The long term safety of chronically administering Viagra into the vagina is not established; these are women of child-bearing age, and any adverse effects – which are much more likely to be observed with a larger patient cohort observed over a longer time period – could be devastating. This, of course, is not as flashy a conclusion as “Men don’t care and control all of the money.”
This is NOT to say dysmenorrhea is no big deal and women have plenty of perfect treatment options. But the conclusion that Viagra for PMS pain is a "gold plated opportunity," and the men who control all the funding just don't care is just plain wrong.
If you’re the type of reader who is convinced by mountains of statistics without caring what those statistics were derived from, and you’re an active believer in the narrative, then you’ll enjoy this book. And by “enjoy” I mean you’ll be outraged (which seems to be Perez’s intention) and I’ll make the same recommendation as others, which is to avoid the presence of sharp objects while reading. If you read with a keen and critical eye and want an accurate representation of the issues, then you’ll be sorely disappointed, as was I. With all that said, I award one star above baseline for making me think about some issues in ways I hadn’t previously, and for presenting a comprehensive laundry list of issues I can follow up on as I see fit.
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- David Larson
- 2019-07-05
Rich and Deep Analysis of Hidden Bias in Data
I'm not sure if the other reviewer actually read this book. South Asian women using stoves is only a couple minutes of this audiobook. Instead it is about hundreds and hundreds of small and nefarious ways in which the male bias in data makes it harder to live as a woman in our modern world. The woman who wrote this book is a data expert and she shines a light on how this death by a thousand cuts harms women at all levels of society. She also points out how easy it is to dismiss women's issues as no big deal (like this other reviewer did). The other reviewer refers to the hundreds of specific problems women face as minutiae, but this reflexive belittling is precisely why this book is so important. I have listened to hundreds of audiobooks on Amazon and this is one of my top 10 favorites. Please don't be discouraged by the other anonymous (vaguely racist) and totally misleading review. Unfortunately, in recent months there has been a trend where alt-right trolls give negative fake reviews to feminist and progressive books in order to trick people into avoiding facts. But don't be fooled. This isn't a liberal book or a conservative book. It is a data science and sociology book. With apologies to the young man who wrote the other review (and the data would suggest you are in fact a young man), please understand that science is not a liberal conspiracy. And if even 10% of the facts the author reports in her book are true, then we face a very real problem when it comes to equality of the sexes. I had no idea how bad things were. I thought women waiting in line for bathrooms was no big deal. Now I see the thousands of connections between the way the building blocks of society are organized, and the myriad obstacles women face that men can blithely ignore. This man's eyes are opened. Thank you for your stunning work Ms. Perez!
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- Rosanna
- 2019-09-15
Yes, we know.
While this book contains important information, it restates the obvious relentlessly. The author reads quickly and insistently. I found it hard to pay attention to lists of statistics. I understand how vital the data gap is for women and how horrible the ramifications are of this problem. But it should’ve been a long article, podcast or series, not a book.
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- Super Reader
- 2019-10-10
Painful listening experience, good info
Horrible, nervous, jumpy and too fast narration of the book with a difficult English accent. Too bad as the info is good, but God, she should have hired a professional calm narrator!
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- Regina Rutledge
- 2019-12-29
Not great science but interesting
As a scientist, I think the author makes some pretty big leaps between cause and effect at points. That said, she did a tremendous amount of research and the facts alone are compelling. I wouldn’t accept a students paper that relied on this book as evidence but it will easily point them in the right direction for solid source data.
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- Ann S Kelly
- 2019-11-03
Listen to the whole book as a student.
Listen to the whole book as a student of sociology. Be objective in your thinking until you finish the book. I am not a feminist. I am a conservative middle class grandmother who has worked her entire life, served in the military, married, college educated and raised two children. I have seen a lot in my lifetime and I encourage books that are well written and touch on society’s reality.
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- Joli M
- 2019-11-25
Self-perception and the gender data gap
I was intrigued by the premise of this book, so had to check it out. So glad I did. I had to take the occasional break from it to brood over some of the things she reveals in terms of the Gender Data Gap. However, gotta say I'm overall inspired . I didn't realize just how much of my self-perception was tied to being a female. In a world where we are literally not meant to reach the top shelf.
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- Melissa K. Cummings
- 2019-09-09
Need to do sex disaggregated data collect analysis
The biggest point that was made poignantly clear with copious examples is that we need to be collecting dad data for females in all the data collection we do. In other words sex disaggregated data analysis.
we need to ask women what is it that they feel they need not what men feel is needed because men don't think about women's needs.
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- ChihuaGirl
- 2019-11-11
Eye opening to say the least
As a middle aged American woman I'm ashamed, well not really, that I chalked up the ill fitting everything from seatbelts to actual furniture to being short (5' 2"). As this books shows its not my height its my gender and the lack of consideration of it that make causes the world to not fit me.
I will be joining the UPMC All of Us initiative which is geared toward building a massive data set to help the medical community create better health care. However, before I join they will have to show me hiw their study will include women as a focus not a peripheral side note.
I think I'll gift the book to a few of the top dogs at the University fir Christmas. the Chancellor is a man but the Provost is a woman. Lets see what she does to change our institution and the world she lives in.
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- Greg
- 2020-09-30
Terrible book
This is a very important subject and she makes some great points but comes off as bitter, biased, and angry. It is easy to find corroborating statistics and complain about how the world is against you; it is harder to actually come up with workable solutions. I kept waiting for some advice on what could be done to improve but all the way to the end it was just complaining about how unfair the world is. Life is unfair to everyone. I think there is a lot of work to be done to improve the lives and voices of women, but this does not suggest any.
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