The influence of male bias on women’s lives is central to this book. Caroline Criado Perez’s book Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is useful in understanding just how much is built upon the default human in our modern society, how we got there, and how consequential this is for women’s lives. Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn dives into how this is playing out in the medical system and in women’s health. Neither of these books focuses on sports, but they clearly show that the assumption of sameness, once a key strategy in the women’s movement for gaining equal rights, has
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