An exciting and ground-breaking work of journalism and activism about women, and the systemic discrimination caused by a data gap that affects half the population - from an award-winning writer and feminist campaigner, who got a woman on our banknotes and a statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square
Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster and award-winning feminist campaigner. 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. She was the 2013 recipient of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year Award, and was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015. Invisible Women has won the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, the Books Are My Bag Readers' Choice Award and the Royal Society Science Book Prize. She lives in London.
Revelatory – it should be required reading for policy and decision
makers everywhere
*Nicola Sturgeon*
HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to
change things – a monumental piece of research
*Caitlin Moran*
Revelatory, frightening, hopeful. A secular Bible
*Jeanette Winterson*
This book is a devastating indictment of institutionalised
complacency and a rallying cry to fight back… Invisible Women
should propel women into action. It should also be compulsory
reading for men
*Sunday Times*
Invisible Women takes on the neglected topic of what we don't know
- and why. The result is a powerful, important and eye-opening
analysis of the gender politics of knowledge and ignorance. With
examples from technology to natural disasters, this is an original
and timely reminder of why we need women in the leadership of the
institutions that shape every aspect of our lives.
*Cordelia Fine*
Invisible Women is a game-changer; an uncompromising blitz of
facts, sad, mad, bad and funny, making an unanswerable case and
doing so brilliantly…the ambition and scope – and sheer originality
– of Invisible Women is huge; no less than the story of what
happens when we forget to account for half of humanity. It should
be on every policymaker, politician and manager’s shelves
*The Times*
Hugely readable, packed with facts and insight. An important book
written with humour and flair
*Robert Webb*
The thoroughness of Invisible Women doesn’t detract from its
absolute readability. This is entertaining, scholarly and so very
important.
*Adam Rutherford*
Here are the facts! Caroline Criado Perez shines her penetrating
gaze on the absence of women from the creation of most societal
norms – from algorithms to medicinal doses to government policy.
Knowledge is power – we all need to know how our systems work if we
want change. Arm yourself with this book and press it into the
hands of everyone you know. It is utterly brilliant!
*Helena Kennedy*
Invisible Women is an absorbing cornucopia of thought-provoking
facts - fascinating, alarming and face-palming in equal measures.
Caroline Criado-Perez shows up the shortcomings of a world designed
for men by men. The consequences of treating men as the default
option, or women just as smaller men – if they get considered at
all - has wide-reaching implications for everything (and everyone)
from snow clearing to seat-belts and many branches of medicine. I
shall certainly think of this book next time I have a heart attack,
a car crash or just want to go to the toilet at the theatre.
*Professor Gina Rippon*
A blisteringly good book... never less than eye-opening, and
frequently staggering
*Bookseller*
It’s a smart strategy to invite readers to view [a] timeworn topic
through the revealing lens of data, bringing to light the hidden
places where inequality still resides... Criado Perez wields data
like a laser, slicing cleanly through the fog of unconscious and
unthinking preferences.
*Guardian*
It took the writer and campaigner Caroline Criado Perez to reveal
the true extent of the man’s world we live in. What makes Invisible
Women so compelling is the mountain of data she draws on. Data, it
turns out, matters... The pervasiveness of the problem is
staggering...this is a brilliant exposé that deservedly won the
Royal Society science book prize
*Guardian, Best science, nature and ideas books of 2019*
Criado Perez comprehensively makes the case that seemingly
objective data can actually be highly male-biased… Policymakers
everywhere should take heed
*Financial Times*
Caroline Criado Perez brilliantly exposes the appalling gender bias
that underpins the collection of data and how it’s used. From
medical treatments that fail to take female biology into account,
to car safety features that are designed for the male body, women
are the invisible 51%. This deeply researched and passionate book
is the most important contribution to gender equality in years
*Amanda Foreman*
arguably one of the most important publications of the year
*Scotsman*
Wide-ranging and vastly well-informed, Invisible Women is a book
that promises to transform the terms of the equality debate
*In the Moment, **Books to Look Out for in 2019***
An eye-opening examination
*Sunday Times*
Anyone who doubts that we live in a world designed by and for men
needs to read this book, with its implicit message that even what
we’ve won so far can never be taken for granted.
*Literary Review*
Invisible Women shines a light on the gender gap in data and what
every woman needs to know about it
*Good Housekeeping*
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