Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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Informative
Incredibly interesting, as someone who loves data this definitely was great. One grievance: at time it felt a bit too sloppy, as in the chapters were divided by topics but then the chapters would stray. Correlations also between chapters could have been explored further
This book is a mountain. And it can bury you, if you let it. So I took it on step by step. Half a chapter at a time, collecting notes, comparing them with a friend and giving me space and time between all the facts and gained insights that flooded me every time. It's actual work, reading this book - but it's not only worth it, it's more than necessary.
In "Invisible Women" Caroline Criado Pérez compiles plenty of ways in which the way data is collected does not include women at all or fails to account for the ways in which women's experiences differ from men's, and the practical influences on our day to day life this has. The book was very informative, sometimes shocking, sometimes making me feel "disappointed but not surprised", and overall drawing a picture that shows just how much things still have to change for us to reach gender equality. "Invisible Women" is well-researched (and well-documented through footnotes), and interestingly written so that it does not read dry. The only thing that bothered me was that the difference between sex and gender wasn't always quite clear. Despite the author saying in the beginning that she'd mostly refer to gender, as that's what's making the difference, she talked overwhelmingly about sex in the book, and I would've wished to get an explanation of why in these cases the choice was made, or if it was purely because the data was collected based on sex and not on gender (which is likely, considering current stances on trans and intersex issues). Overall, a book I can and will recommend.
Spannend mit vielen Fakten, leider sehr binär
Spannende und erhellende bis schockierende Fakten aufschlussreich zusammengestellt. Leider sehr binär, was teilweise an den Daten liegt. Allerdings ist die Autorin wohl Trans-feindlich und hat auch keine Infos zur Binäritat der Daten ins Buch aufgenommen.
DNF @ 40% I really enjoyed this in the first couple of chapters but soon I found the writing to be extremely dry. While improtant things are said, it just isn't a good reading experience. I also started to notice how a book about data gaps wasn't acknowledging and actively ignoring the problems trans people face because of these data gaps. The language used was also almost borderline exclusive and derogatory. I wasn't the only one who noticed that and multiple people have pointed this out well Example Furthermore I realized how qoutes and discussions of this book often gather TERFs and like-minded people. All together that just made me uncomfortable in a "once you see it, you can't unsee it" kinda way. While I do think that this book says important things, I just didn't feel great reading it.
In Invisible Women schreibt die Autorin Caroline Criado Perez über den Gender Data Gap, dass heisst darüber, dass in vielen Datenerhebungen (z.B. in der Medizin, aber auch in der Wirtschaft und vielen weiteren Orten) nur Daten von Männern erhoben werden oder zumindest das Geschlecht nicht beachtet wird. Obschon ich einige der Beispiele die in dem Buch behandelt werden schon kannte, zeigt es doch eindrücklich auf, welche Konsequenzen es hat, die Hälfte der Menschheit nicht zu berücksichtigen und einfach den Mann als Standard zu sehen. Ich habe das englische Hörbuch gehört. Dieses wird von der Autorin selbst gelesen und ich kann es nur empfehlen.
I finished „Invisible Women“ by Caroline Criado Perez today. It is a very shocking book and I was not able to read it in one go as I had to put it down to first digest what I‘ve learned in every chapter before continuing to the next. The contents of this book are extremely relevant and important but it is most certainly not an easy read. Nevertheless I think EVERYBODY should read it as it shows how far away we REALLY are from gender equality which, as a woman, breaks my heart to realize how many areas in life this refers to and how easy it could be fixed if we would simply change our ways of thinking!
Not a perfect book, but an imensly important one!
It's interesting how I've never acticely thought about all the big and small injustices women are confronted with on a daily basis - it was a "well that's the way it apparently is" kind of thinking. What I loved most apart from raising my awareness for this topic is how well written and researched this book is (with a hundred pages of sources in the end). Even though it's repetitive and obvious in some parts I still couldn't stop reading. Bear in mind that the repetitiveness is just another reminder about how the same pattern in male default thinking has brought us to where we are today - with prescription meds not working for women or even having deadly side effects, female police agents dying from ill-fitting security vests and women doing the majority of care work worldwide but never being paid or even acknowledged for that (take the GDP where this work has no impact at all). To mention but a few of the topics raised in this book. If you are looking to educate yourself about data bias or gender inequalities or maybe even about the reason our world is designed the way it is today you should definitely grab that book. Or if you're just kind of curious. And please please please don't refrain from reading it because you're a man.
This book is a mountain. And it can bury you, if you let it. So I took it on step by step. Half a chapter at a time, collecting notes, comparing them with a friend and giving me space and time between all the facts and gained insights that flooded me every time. It's actual work, reading this book - but it's not only worth it, it's more than necessary.
What differences there are
Ich bewerte Sachbücher irgendwie nicht gerne, aber ich denke es ist wichtig dass es dieses Buch gibt. Allein schon um eine neue Perspektive zu schaffen und die ganze Recherche aufzuzeigen die in dieses Buch geflossen ist und man in einem Interview zum Beispiel nicht so detailliert vermitteln könnte
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Informative
Incredibly interesting, as someone who loves data this definitely was great. One grievance: at time it felt a bit too sloppy, as in the chapters were divided by topics but then the chapters would stray. Correlations also between chapters could have been explored further
This book is a mountain. And it can bury you, if you let it. So I took it on step by step. Half a chapter at a time, collecting notes, comparing them with a friend and giving me space and time between all the facts and gained insights that flooded me every time. It's actual work, reading this book - but it's not only worth it, it's more than necessary.
In "Invisible Women" Caroline Criado Pérez compiles plenty of ways in which the way data is collected does not include women at all or fails to account for the ways in which women's experiences differ from men's, and the practical influences on our day to day life this has. The book was very informative, sometimes shocking, sometimes making me feel "disappointed but not surprised", and overall drawing a picture that shows just how much things still have to change for us to reach gender equality. "Invisible Women" is well-researched (and well-documented through footnotes), and interestingly written so that it does not read dry. The only thing that bothered me was that the difference between sex and gender wasn't always quite clear. Despite the author saying in the beginning that she'd mostly refer to gender, as that's what's making the difference, she talked overwhelmingly about sex in the book, and I would've wished to get an explanation of why in these cases the choice was made, or if it was purely because the data was collected based on sex and not on gender (which is likely, considering current stances on trans and intersex issues). Overall, a book I can and will recommend.
Spannend mit vielen Fakten, leider sehr binär
Spannende und erhellende bis schockierende Fakten aufschlussreich zusammengestellt. Leider sehr binär, was teilweise an den Daten liegt. Allerdings ist die Autorin wohl Trans-feindlich und hat auch keine Infos zur Binäritat der Daten ins Buch aufgenommen.
DNF @ 40% I really enjoyed this in the first couple of chapters but soon I found the writing to be extremely dry. While improtant things are said, it just isn't a good reading experience. I also started to notice how a book about data gaps wasn't acknowledging and actively ignoring the problems trans people face because of these data gaps. The language used was also almost borderline exclusive and derogatory. I wasn't the only one who noticed that and multiple people have pointed this out well Example Furthermore I realized how qoutes and discussions of this book often gather TERFs and like-minded people. All together that just made me uncomfortable in a "once you see it, you can't unsee it" kinda way. While I do think that this book says important things, I just didn't feel great reading it.
In Invisible Women schreibt die Autorin Caroline Criado Perez über den Gender Data Gap, dass heisst darüber, dass in vielen Datenerhebungen (z.B. in der Medizin, aber auch in der Wirtschaft und vielen weiteren Orten) nur Daten von Männern erhoben werden oder zumindest das Geschlecht nicht beachtet wird. Obschon ich einige der Beispiele die in dem Buch behandelt werden schon kannte, zeigt es doch eindrücklich auf, welche Konsequenzen es hat, die Hälfte der Menschheit nicht zu berücksichtigen und einfach den Mann als Standard zu sehen. Ich habe das englische Hörbuch gehört. Dieses wird von der Autorin selbst gelesen und ich kann es nur empfehlen.
I finished „Invisible Women“ by Caroline Criado Perez today. It is a very shocking book and I was not able to read it in one go as I had to put it down to first digest what I‘ve learned in every chapter before continuing to the next. The contents of this book are extremely relevant and important but it is most certainly not an easy read. Nevertheless I think EVERYBODY should read it as it shows how far away we REALLY are from gender equality which, as a woman, breaks my heart to realize how many areas in life this refers to and how easy it could be fixed if we would simply change our ways of thinking!
Not a perfect book, but an imensly important one!
It's interesting how I've never acticely thought about all the big and small injustices women are confronted with on a daily basis - it was a "well that's the way it apparently is" kind of thinking. What I loved most apart from raising my awareness for this topic is how well written and researched this book is (with a hundred pages of sources in the end). Even though it's repetitive and obvious in some parts I still couldn't stop reading. Bear in mind that the repetitiveness is just another reminder about how the same pattern in male default thinking has brought us to where we are today - with prescription meds not working for women or even having deadly side effects, female police agents dying from ill-fitting security vests and women doing the majority of care work worldwide but never being paid or even acknowledged for that (take the GDP where this work has no impact at all). To mention but a few of the topics raised in this book. If you are looking to educate yourself about data bias or gender inequalities or maybe even about the reason our world is designed the way it is today you should definitely grab that book. Or if you're just kind of curious. And please please please don't refrain from reading it because you're a man.
This book is a mountain. And it can bury you, if you let it. So I took it on step by step. Half a chapter at a time, collecting notes, comparing them with a friend and giving me space and time between all the facts and gained insights that flooded me every time. It's actual work, reading this book - but it's not only worth it, it's more than necessary.
What differences there are
Ich bewerte Sachbücher irgendwie nicht gerne, aber ich denke es ist wichtig dass es dieses Buch gibt. Allein schon um eine neue Perspektive zu schaffen und die ganze Recherche aufzuzeigen die in dieses Buch geflossen ist und man in einem Interview zum Beispiel nicht so detailliert vermitteln könnte