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Invisible Women reviews places in society where women are entirely overlooked for the default human condition: being male. When women are included in decisions and research, better outcomes are found across the board. Women‘s perspectives find solutions men don‘t see, women account for other women‘s needs in times of disaster and humanitarian aid, outcomes in car accidents — overall providing for the needs of families and communities better.

This book needs to be mandatory reading for all! Thoroughly researched, utterly insightful - Perez delves into many facets of the world where data gaps and gender bias has made women invisible. Easily one of the best books I‘ve read. This is the book you quote when someone says gender bias doesn‘t exist! Infuriating and devastating but so so true.

Current read shaping up to be excellently researched. It is so eye-opening, affirming, and at the same time enraging that women in the 21st century still have the problems we do and that it‘s so deeply rooted within the system.

#VolumesAndVocals Day 6: #AntiHeroTaylorSwift seems to be the anthem of a lot of invisible women: It‘s me. Hi. I‘m the problem, it‘s me.

I only finished 4 books in May, although I have another 3 on the go at the moment. 3 were fantastic & one was terrible!

28/23 This book… it has caused more “discussions” with the men in my life than anything else. I am forever changed by the simple realisation that I am not crazy, what I believed to be true (and unfair) about the experience of women is backed up by data… sometimes… I strongly encourage you to read this book (I listened. It was read very well by the author - in the photo).

We went to Burling Gap today. It‘s National Trust which means three things- crazy long queues for the toilets, cream teas and second hand book shelves. I picked up the tagged book. I‘m just about to finish it on audible. But I needed a physical copy to press into other women‘s hands!

It is lucky I have beautiful, calming places to walk whilst I continue to listen to this one 🤯🤯🤯

It‘s just as well I have the sea to soothe me because I‘m 1 chapter into this book and I‘m already furious.

#WomensHistoryMonth #Recommendations
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How is the world around us made for men? What are the consequences?
This is a great book that explores these questions.
You will get .mad, annoyed and filled with ammunition for arguments about women in STEM.

1) Recommended for any human who cares about gender equity & wants to get pissed off.
2) I thought *I* was a Hillary Clinton fan. She figures huge in these pages.
3) If this was written post-Covid-19, the data would just piss me off more.

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs @julesG @RaeLovesToRead @Caroline2 @Leniverse

1. Tagged.
2. Recently, just how quickly I've been turning the pages to find out what happens next, or how quickly I've wanted to fall asleep! In the past, the speed at which I've been turning the pages & my love of the characters.
3. No, but I might if I was reading a NF about a composer.

#52books23 #startswithI
#booked23 #aboutreproductiverights (ok, it's not all about this but it's featured enough times!)

@Cinfhen @alisiakae @BarbaraTheBibliophage @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB @Deblovestoread @RaeLovesToRead @squirrelbrain @Bluebird @LeeRHarry @ravenlee

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#AlphabetGame #LetterI

I‘m pretty cynical, but I have to admit I was even surprised and at times angry about how deep bias typically goes with sex and gender in completing research that shapes everything from recommended medical treatments to public policy.

Another great title I‘d like to give a quick pitch for is The Impeachers by Brenda Wineapple about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.

#alphabetgame #letteri
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

June‘s pick was Tell Me S‘more and July‘s pick is Instructions for Dancing. I had to give the edge to Invisible Women for the next round, as the impact it had on me was profound and I‘ve been extolling its virtues to anyone who will listen!
#2022ReadingBracketChallenge @chasjjlee

Eye-opening and infuriating.

#MadeYouMad #BookMoods
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I recommend this book to anyone, and plan to buy one for my workplace library. My sense of fascination compelled me to finish this quickly, and I recommend the audiobook as the narrator makes the stats very digestible. This is something we need to stand up against, and that means more people need to be made aware.
2 Bingos for #bookspinbingo this month, and 12 books read. Yay!!
@TheAromaofBooks

I started listening to this book while driving to my parents on Friday, and continued listening on my way home today. Ironically, most of what I heard today was about how cars are tested with male dummies and how many more women are severely injured than men because they have to adjust everything just because they are women. Now reading this chapter about medicine is just flooring me.

How can anyone have self control when books you‘ve been thinking about are a quarter of their list price is beyond me.

#bookclub

little haul from the library. i‘ve been itching to go book shopping lately…

The top 2 were impulse check outs (hush to be read bookshelf…), the sentence has been popping up everywhere, and invisible women is for a bookclub i‘m in.

#litsyloveslibrary #bookclub #nonfiction #fiction

#invisiblestring #FearlessFebruary

I‘m reading this in small portions because I get so frustrated - not with the book but with the issues Perez shows. 😊

So, again @DieAReader, thank you for recommending this one. It enraged me! But made me think a lot about how things are phrased, how we need to adjust for people's bodies, genetic makeup, emotional wellbeing. I feel like there is so much more to learn. So much more making women at risk. - Highly recommend this eye-opener!

#the52bookclub2022 Prompt 7: Nonfiction Best Seller

#DogsOfLitsy

I am really enjoying this book. Is enjoying the right word? It's so disturbing and infuriating that women aren't considered in so many avenues of life! It's super eye-opening and I didn't realize how I just came to “accept“ the biases that are gender-based. Ugh! Anyway, I would definitely #Reccomend this one. I am about 62% done :)

#BeardiesOfLitsy (My princess, Gizmo)

#JoyousJanuary #WeekendReading #BookNookBuddies2022 #ImpulseRead #BookSpinBingo

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Very 👀opening for anyone who doesn‘t think/believe that we still live in a “Man‘s World”🙄🤣 Very enlightening & extremely informative. I loved it!

As a recommendation from @DieAReader I had to check this out.. and SCORE! it was available to download from Libby (with no wait time!). I am using this as my next #AudioCommute book :)

#DogsOfLitsy

#JoyousJanuary #BookNookBuddies2022

Something to keep me company while doing some tidying up.

I'm not so sure I'll be able to finish my #DoubleSpin this month. This book is DENSE! I'm three chapters in and the amount of information is overwhelming. (In addition to frustrating and infuriating.)

I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 359.
#bookstoread
#tbrpile
#bookstagram

Nothing to do today at Gladstone‘s Library but read….. and eat…. And maybe a nap!

#readingretreat

Overall this was a very eye-opening and infuriating listen. Packed full of examples of how women are not considered the norm and how this negatively impacts us (and everyone really). Very good read. Highly recommend it.

#kindledailydeal
Some well loved ones today for those who haven‘t yet read them.

A maddening look at how women‘s issues and bodies have been ignored, abused, and unplanned for in societies around the world. Hard to read, but so important to shine a light on.

this book is a must-read! I wasn‘t aware of woman‘s (and children‘s) problems of using the bathroom in third world countries can be fatal. And did you know that automobile ratings are completely wrong? This book is full of information that will make your jaw drop. Some were known to me, most were not. Very informative! I highly recommend this book!

This was a great audiobook! I loved that the author read her own work. The book outlines how women are often ignored and left out when policy changes are made by governments and companies and in medical trials. This book will leave you dumbfounded in regards to how much women are overlooked in many realms of life. I respected how calm the author‘s writing remained as she could have easily engaged in some deserved male bashing!
#doublespin

Gilda says what the cluck? This book is infuriating! While the writing and lists of statistics could have been better. It is an important read! Better late than never for #SheSaid

I learned so much! And I fear the world sooooo much more after reading this. The health care parts in this book can cause sleepless nights on its own. I feel like I need to listen to this again after a year or so when I have processed the first round... 🤦‍♀️ It felt like this book contained so much important info that it takes at least 3-4 listening rounds to comprehend and remember everything.

This is a fantastic, data driven, and absolutely infuriating look at gender bias. Made my blood boil for all the very obvious ways women are disregarded on a day to day basis in all things- from healthcare to seatbelts, and iPhones to education, men are considered the default. Sometimes for no other reason that no one has bothered to collect the data on women. So many problems could be solved if we just listened to women.

This book makes me very nervous. How is it possible that for example medical people HADN'T NOTICED that female and male bodies are different. It feels like I'm losing my faith in the world bit by bit after every listened minute... 🤦‍♀️

This is a tiny side tangent quote from a book I read with #SheSaid last month….. but this quote is just repeating in the back of my brain as I watch the news this week.

I also keep thinking of one of our first #SheSaid books by Malala Yousafzai Tough week #SheSaid and tough for all the women and girls left behind. 😢

I first listened to this book last year and knew then I would have to own my own copy and read it again. I‘m so glad #SheSaid had this book as a buddy read so I got to this sooner rather than later.

What I love about this book is that it cover a range field of areas where women is discriminated against and research from a lot of countries. This makes it harder to dismiss the reality.

A must read for everyone

This was my #BookSpin #DoubleSpin and our #SheReads book for August. It was a reread for me, and I was so glad to be able to discuss it with other readers, which I wanted to do the first time. Criado-Perez provides a global picture of the ways in which women are left out of research, politics, and policy decisions — everything from medical research and car safety to governmental representation and rebuilding after natural disasters.