This intensively researched book by Caroline Criado Perez exposes a male-biased world by successfully arguing that the lack of 'big data' on women is equivalent to rendering half of the world's population invisible
), Caroline Criado Perez analyzes how gender politics are affected and enhanced by gaps in big data and argues powerfully that human history is comprised of a pervasive gender data gap that effectively ‘silences’ and erases women’s accomplishments, experiences, needs and daily lives.
In her book, Ms. Perez contends that defining women solely by their relationships to men – as wives, daughters, sisters, or mothers – allows men to view women either as a subtype of men, or as an alien ‘Other’, rather than as autonomous human beings with their own dreams, goals, desires, and specific needs.
have – that touch on every aspect of womens’ lives, ranging from the workplace, academic and other careers, medical research, to home life, and in daily and public life, all of which systematically neglect, ignore or completely overlook women. This contrasts with the abundance of big data on men, which are recognized as the universal norm. As a result, the fact that women can have needs that are different from those of men has not occurred to those who are creating these social structures.
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