Invisible Women Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Quotes

“We need to train doctors to listen to women, and to recognize that their inability to diagnose a woman may not be because she is lying or being hysterical: the problem may be the gender data gaps in their knowledge. It's time to stop dismissing women, and start saving them.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“1975 had been declared by the UN as a Women's Year, and in Iceland women were determined to make it count. A committee was set up with representatives from Iceland's five biggest women's organisations. After some discussion they came up with the idea of a strike. On 24 October, no woman in Iceland would do a lick of work. No paid work, but also no cooking, no cleaning, no child care. Let the men of Iceland see how they coped without the invisible work women did every day to keep the country moving.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Threats come from a place of fear. In fact, a gender-data-gap-driven fear: certain men, who have grown up in a culture saturated by male voices and male faces, fear what they see as women taking away power and public space that is rightfully theirs. This fear will not dissipate until we fill in that cultural gender data gap, and, as a consequence, men no longer grow up seeing the public sphere as their rightful domain. So, to a certain extent, it is an ordeal that our generation of women needs to go through in order that the women who come after us don't.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men