The Other Half: Why We Need to Close the Gender Data Gap
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I finally managed to read this book and overall, it was quite interesting, but also mostly what I expected. Meaning: a lot of numbers and facts, and also a lot of binarity. The book addresses many important aspects and shows how patriarchy works, how women are erased from data, and how this invisibility supports yet again patriarchal structures. It shows how objective research isn't that objective sometimes, how biased numbers can be, and it is a great book for people who need facts themselves to argue with relatives for example or because they don't trust feminists to be right about discrimination. I learned many things which is why this is still a book I would recommend. However, it is also book that reproduces cisnormative binarity. It never acknowledges other gender identities apart from men and women or different experiences from trans* people. This leads to the impression that there are only cis men and cis women who are naturally different and whose difference is ignored in a society that assumes men as the norm. And while cis men are certainly perceived as the norm and and while sometimes data for how other bodies are affected for example by medecine, trans*, non-binary and inter people exist and are differntly affected than cis women. I didn't expect this book to address this in detail, but since it did address topics such as how racism affects women differently, I missed a recognition of other gender identities. This would have also enriched this discussion and added more perspectives.
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I finally managed to read this book and overall, it was quite interesting, but also mostly what I expected. Meaning: a lot of numbers and facts, and also a lot of binarity. The book addresses many important aspects and shows how patriarchy works, how women are erased from data, and how this invisibility supports yet again patriarchal structures. It shows how objective research isn't that objective sometimes, how biased numbers can be, and it is a great book for people who need facts themselves to argue with relatives for example or because they don't trust feminists to be right about discrimination. I learned many things which is why this is still a book I would recommend. However, it is also book that reproduces cisnormative binarity. It never acknowledges other gender identities apart from men and women or different experiences from trans* people. This leads to the impression that there are only cis men and cis women who are naturally different and whose difference is ignored in a society that assumes men as the norm. And while cis men are certainly perceived as the norm and and while sometimes data for how other bodies are affected for example by medecine, trans*, non-binary and inter people exist and are differntly affected than cis women. I didn't expect this book to address this in detail, but since it did address topics such as how racism affects women differently, I missed a recognition of other gender identities. This would have also enriched this discussion and added more perspectives.