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Invisible Women
- Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- Narrated by: Caroline Criado Perez
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government
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Publisher's Summary
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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- 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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- 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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- S. Watson
- 2021-01-24
A book for everyone - especially decision makers
This is a thought provoking book. It is important to understand that how we collect data has consequences on decisions, and these decisions don't affect men and women equally.
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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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- Anonymous User
- 2020-12-29
Great listen!
My eyes were opened to new perspectives and personal biases I did not realize I held. I hope many more people take the time to listen!
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- Justin
- 2020-11-15
Great points but
Great points. This will certainly improve how I act towards and for women. One caveat that I would warn a friend about is studies and data are often cherry picked and interpreted in a sensational or singular way. I understand this is common in journalism but when listening on the go, it's harder to check the citations yourself.
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- Daniel
- 2020-11-07
Thought-provoking & very insightful
Loved this book - very thoughtful approach and helped change my perspective on areas of women's lives that I wasn't aware of. Highly recommend
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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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- Margaret
- 2020-08-19
Definitely worth the read
This was a book that I have wanted to read for some time now, but I also felt that it would be a difficult, boring if useful read. I anticipated a lot of statistics -which in fairness it does have - laid out like a government report that eventually draws the conclusions that sexism is real y’all! Surprise! 🤷🏾♀️
But, as much as I wasn’t looking forward to trudging through what I had assumed would be a tedious book, I also recognised that the information in this book would arm me with the facts I needed to carefully articulate that ‘...the reason I’m always in a blanket in the office Bob, is because the temperature is set at the ideal temperature for the average man who’s metabolic rate is on average 23% higher than the average woman’s...’ 🤜🏾🎤
I found listening to the book (as I generally do with books like this) a little annoying only because I never remember to use the bookmarking features on audible and always get frustrated when I want to make a note of something, but that’s just me 😊🤷🏾♀️.
Overall it was a pretty great read, it should’ve been much more intersectional but for what it covers it is pretty good.
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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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- 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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- 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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- dtamayob
- 2020-01-11
The most important book anyone can read this year
I read Invisible Women hoping to do a presentation at work for our Women's Development forum, but holy crap, how in the world do you boil down such a densely filled book into 10-15 slides and a clean summary?
IT CAN'T BE DONE.
Well, it can, but it wouldn't come close to doing justice to this vastly important book. "Gender data gap" would sound too much like a buzz word, and the message could never penetrate as it should.
Instead I am submitting this as a book club choice at work, but hoping we can read it in the background, over the course of a quarter, not a month. Each woman will wish to sip, not chug, this book as we may for many of our less weighty novels and business books.
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- Laurie Ann Thompson
- 2019-11-06
Everyone should read this book
This is an extremely important book, both eye opening and mind blowing. The world can, and should, work better for half its citizens (and thus for all of them). This book is a great place to start. I’ll be thinking about this for years to come.
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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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- Lizzy
- 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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- KW
- 2020-06-03
I wanted to love this book
The topic is important and I really wanted to love this book. The book is so full of anecdotes and listings of factoids for hours of listening to make a point that I found it overwhelming. Couple of good points/ stories to make a point is enough. The narration is also overwhelming...like listening to someone scream at you for hours. At the end there seemed to be no solutions suggested. Most of the folks in our book club didn’t finish it.
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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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- Melissa Marie Croteau
- 2019-11-14
Brilliant, Revelatory, and Much Needed
I suspected that an audio book about data would be dull and trying on the patience (all those numbers thrown around); however, I was dead wrong. The book « reads » like a real page-turner, a new discovery around every corner. Perez reads her own book like pro and has a very pleasant and expressive voice. Brava! Honestly, I thought I was angry about injustice wrought upon women and have been told I was overly so. This book shows quantitatively that I’m not angry enough. We have such a long way to go to achieve anything resembling parity and so much of the injustice is entirely preventable if women were only listened to and truly recognized as half the human race. Looking at the data, too often were not considered human at all. READ THIS.
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