Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
Author Caroline Criado-Perez spent three years researching her recently-published book, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed For Men, and now that the information is out in the world, righteous rage is spreading like wildfire in its path.
The reason? Well, while it’s generally accepted that there exists a gap in things like pay and often medical treatment between the sexes, her research reveals an even deeper divide that, in its most malevolent forms, is costing women their lives.
Her thesis is that the world has, in every nook and cranny, has been designed for men and sees women as an afterthought (if it sees them at all). An excerpt was recently published in The Guardian and pointed out several everyday ways that women are shunted to the side.
The examples range from small, like the way the size of a smartphone fits perfectly in a man’s larger hand but women struggle to hold the devices (which are about the size of an average female hand) to potentially deadly, like the way crash test dummies only test impact and safety measures for the male form.
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