Caroline is a writer, broadcaster and award-winning feminist campaigner who successfully pushed for Jane Austen to be featured on the UK’s £10 note. She was prompted to start writing, when she discovered that in the medical field, data on women was not being collected.

“Drugs were not being tested on female humans and as a result women were receiving sub-standard healthcare. I was so shocked that this was happening, that researchers knew this would have a damaging impact but were nevertheless doing it. I couldn’t believe I didn’t know about this and that other people didn’t know either, so I felt I had to write about it.”

Her latest book analyses the biased data that excludes women in a world designed by men, for men. Prepare yourself for some seriously staggering stats.

We already know that women are paid less and that we do far more unpaid work at home. We are the disproportionate victims of domestic violence. And somehow, the queue is always longer for the loo…

From shortcomings in smartphone design (shout out to our small handed BFF H - we see you) to medical trials that put half the population at risk this book takes a deep dive into the facts and figures that make up modern women’s experience of the world.

In a time where people feel fatigued and inundated by feminist messaging and all too often we hear an ignorant chorus of ‘but we all have equal rights now...’ It’s great to take a fresh look at the topic through the lens of data. The book offers a new line of questioning and shines a light on concrete examples of discrimination that have potentially lethal implications.

We recommend picking up a copy of this incredible book if only to arm yourself with the cold hard facts and we’ll leave you with just a few of the stand out stats from the book below:

A 2013 UN homicide survey found that 96% of homicide perpetrators worldwide are male. So is it humans who are murderous, or men?
More than 40% of women leave tech companies after ten years compared to 17% of men
Speech-recognition software is trained on recordings of male voices. Google’s version is 70% more likely to understand men. One woman reported that her car’s voice-command system only listened to her husband, even when he was sitting in the passenger seat.
The first programmers were women. They were the human “computers” who performed complex calculations for the military during the second world war. Now women make up just 11% of software developers, 25% of Silicon Valley employees, and 7% of partners at venture capital firms.

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Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women