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Thoughts on reading @CCriadoPerez’s book, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men—
1. This is one of the best books I have ever read! I highly recommend it as it will change your perspective.
(Spoilers ahead)
1. This is one of the best books I have ever read! I highly recommend it as it will change your perspective.
(Spoilers ahead)
2. It’s really fascinating to hear about all of the things that are designed with the thought that one size can fit all, when it statistically doesn’t, from snow plowing patterns to crash test dummies to medicine.
3. The cooking stones debacle was the most infuriating. That should have been the prime example! Also curious that they asked only men about rearing crops in a country where women are the farmers.
4. Why did I never think of the women who make BPA plastic bottles?!
5. I think “everyone buck up” sells @LeanInOrg short. Sandberg acknowledges the barriers sexism imposes, with the resumes example. But then she tries to talk about possible solutions. I really loved that book and I would recommend it also.
6. British taxpayers foot the bill for homeless men’s condoms but not homeless women’s pads/tampons. 
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7. Sexual harassment on public transportation sticks out to me as the biggest issue, so I’m so glad she addressed this.
8. Oi, I relate to the “not being believed” problem so hard. I was in labor for over a day, contractions 5 min apart when the doc sent me home because he told me I “wasn’t in enough pain.” Though I assured him it was the worst pain of my life. When I got home, I was in so much...
... pain I couldn’t see or move every three minutes. The edges of my vision became white and then collapsed in on itself. I was literally pushing in my car on the way back to the hospital.
When we got there he had a rather novel theory: that I had gone into labor...
When we got there he had a rather novel theory: that I had gone into labor...
...coincidentally the second I got home and that I also, coincidentally, labored for the bare minimum amount of time possible (even rarer for a first birth.)https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😳" title="Flushed face" aria-label="Emoji: Flushed face">
And my experience pales in comparison to the women in this book! Wow.
And my experience pales in comparison to the women in this book! Wow.
9. Thanks to @sophielmcd at @OurWomensWrites who hosted a great discussion on this! And @columbuslibrary for suggesting the book.
