Invisible Women Quotes

“Research published in 2018 by Boston Consulting Group found that although on average female business owners receive less than half the level of investment their male counterparts get, they produce more than twice the revenue. For every dollar of funding, female-owned start-ups generate seventy-eight cents, compared to male-owned start-ups which generate thirty-one cents. They also perform better over time, ‘generating 10% more in cumulative revenue over a five-year period’.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“workplace violence in healthcare is ‘an under-reported, ubiquitous, and persistent problem that has been tolerated and largely ignored’.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Worker health should be a public health priority if only because ‘workers are acting as a canary for society as a whole’.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“glass stairs and lobby floors that mean anyone below can see up your skirt,”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Prior to the introduction of the ‘use it or lose it’ leave for fathers, only about 6% of men in Sweden took paternity leave, despite the fact that it had been available for them since 1974. In other words, men didn’t take the leave on offer until forced to by the government.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“The problem isn’t that women are irrationally polite. It’s that they know – whether consciously or not – that ‘polite’ interrupting simply doesn’t exist for them. So telling women to behave more like men – as if male behaviour is a gender-neutral human default – is unhelpful, and in fact potentially damaging.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“if the initiatives don’t account for women’s childcare demands, women don’t complete them. And that’s development money down the drain – and more women’s economic potential wasted. In fact, the best job-creation programme could simply be the introduction of universal childcare in every country in the world.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“the reality is, these facts have been lying to us. They have all been distorted by a failure to account for half of humanity”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“worth is a matter of opinion, and opinion is informed by culture. And if that culture is as male-biased as ours is, it can’t help but be biased against women. By default.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Felix Mendelssohn published six of his sister Fanny Hensel’s pieces under his own name and in 2010 another manuscript previously thought to be his was proven to be Hensel’s.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Social power for women is therefore intrinsically incompatible with professional power: if a woman wants to be seen as competent she has to give up being seen as warm.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“The world’s ‘fastest-growing language’,34 used by more than 90% of the world’s online population, is emoji.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“На данный момент уже есть подтверждения того, что антипсихотические средства, антибиотики, а также антигистаминные и сердечные препараты в разных фазах менструального цикла действуют по-разному58. Уже установлено, что это относится и к некоторым антидепрессантам. Значит, в одной фазе цикла назначенная доза препарата может оказаться слишком высокой, а на другой — слишком низкой59.”
― Кэролайн Криадо Перес, Невидимые женщины: Почему мы живем в мире, удобном только для мужчин. Неравноправие, основанное на данных (Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men)

“We need to train doctors to listen to women, and to recognise 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 Perez, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Analysis of 182 peace agreements signed between 1989 and 2011 demonstrated that when women are included in peace processes there is a 20% increase in the probability of an agreement lasting at least two years, and a 35% increase in the probability of an agreement lasting at least fifteen years.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“In June 2017 US Senator Kamala Harris was asking an evasive Attorney General Jeff Sessions some tough questions. When he prevaricated once too often, she interrupted him and pressed him to answer. She was then in turn (on two separate occasions) interrupted and admonished by Senator John McCain for her questioning style.76 He did not do the same to her colleague Senator Rob Wyden, who subjected Sessions to similarly dogged questioning, and it was only Harris who was later dubbed ‘hysterical’.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“This is not to say that there are no structural solutions. Take the issue of women being interrupted. An analysis of fifteen years of Supreme Court oral arguments found that ‘men interrupt more than women, and they particularly interrupt women more than they interrupt other men’.73 This goes for male lawyers (female lawyers weren’t found to interrupt at all) as well as judges, even though lawyers are meant to stop speaking when a justice starts speaking. And, as in the political sphere, the problem seems to have got worse as female representation on the bench has increased”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“The failure to measure unpaid household services is perhaps the greatest gender data gap of all. Estimates suggest that unpaid care work could account for up to 50% of GDP in high-income countries, and as much as 80% of GDP in low-income countries.2 If we factor this work into the equation, the UK’s GDP in 2016 was around $3.9 trillion3 (the World Bank’s official figure was $2.6 trillion4), and India’s 2016 GDP was around $3.7 trillion5 (compared to the World Bank’s figure of $2.3 trillion).”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Fifty per cent of the population have a vagina,’ she continues, ‘and yet there’s hardly any journal articles about this part of anatomy. Three years ago I found about four articles done decades ago.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“A Starbucks spokesperson told the New York Times that Navarro’s experience ‘was an anomaly, and that the company provided at least a week’s notice of work hours, as well as stable schedules for employees who want them’. But when journalists spoke to current and former workers ‘at 17 Starbucks outlets around the country, only two said they received a week’s notice of their hours; some got as little as one day’.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Jannette Navarro, a barista at a Starbucks in San Diego, showed the New York Times her upcoming algorithm-produced schedule.33 It involved working until 11 p.m. on the Friday, reporting again at 4 a.m. on Saturday, and then starting again at 5 a.m. on Sunday. She rarely learned her schedule more than three days in advance, causing havoc for her childcare arrangements – and forcing her to put her associate degree in business on hold.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“When the US Department of Labor conducted an analysis of Google’s pay practices in 2017 it found ‘systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce’, with ‘six to seven standard deviations between pay for men and women in nearly every job category’.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“A female political history lecturer at a Canadian university received the following useful feedback from her student: ‘I like how your nipples show through your bra. Thanks.’40 The lecturer in question now wears ‘lightly padded bras’ exclusively.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Incidentally, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the coal mining industry, which during the 2016 election became the shibboleth for (implicitly male) working-class jobs, provides 53,420 jobs in total, at a median annual wage of $59,380.89 Compare this to the majority female 924,640-strong cleaning and housekeeper workforce, whose median annual income is $21,820.90 So who’s the real working class?”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“The myth of meritocracy achieves its apotheosis in America’s tech industry. According to a 2016 survey, the number one concern of tech start-up founders was ‘hiring good people’, while having a diverse workforce ranked seventh on the list of ten business priorities.9 One in four founders said they weren’t interested in diversity or work-life balance at all. Which, taken together, points to a belief that if you want to find ‘the best people’, addressing structural bias is unnecessary. A belief in meritocracy is all you need.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“US, which is one of only four countries in the world that doesn’t guarantee at least some paid maternity leave.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“With the exception of the US, all industrialised countries guarantee workers paid maternity leave,”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Measuring GDP is, she says, ‘not like measuring how high the mountain is’. When you see headlines proclaiming that ‘GDP went up 0.3% this quarter’, she cautions, you should remember that that 0.3% ‘is dwarfed by the amount of uncertainty in the figures’.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“And what’s the difference between cooking a meal in the home and producing software in the home? The former has largely been done by women, and the latter is largely done by men.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Самый "быстроразвивающийся" язык в мире, который применяют более 90% пользователей интернета - язык эмодзи. Он возник в 1980-ч гг., и на нем чаще "говорят" женщины: эмодзи постоянно используют 78% женщин и 60% мужчин. <...> Если Unicode Consortium решает, что конкретный эмодзи-символ следует добавить в существующий набор символов, она решает также, какой исходный код для этого использовать. Производители телефонов (или платформы, например, Twitter и Facebook) затем разрабатывают собственный вариант. <...> Символ, который на большинстве платформ изначально изображался в виде бегущего человека, не обозначал бегущего мужчину. Он обозначал бегущего человека. <...> Но отдельные платформы начали приписывать этим гендерно нейтральным символам мужской род. В 2016 г. Unicode Consortium решила, что с этим надо что-то делать. Отказавшись от своей изначальной "гендерно нейтральной" позиции, организация конкретизировала пол всех эмодзи, обозначающих людей.”
― Кэролайн Криадо Перес, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men