Welcome to Litsy!

A fascinating read, definitely, but boy did it make me cross.

@Victoria_Clyne thought of you when I read this.

Really interesting, incredibly infuriating, and important especially as a science educator. My only quibble is that a lot of it was just linked together facts that were sometimes difficult to wade through. The sections with more analysis and even the sections with personal anecdotes to break up the facts were much easier to absorb.

As if I wasn‘t already mad at the world, I had to go and read this book - now I‘m even more mad. Mad as hell! 😡 Seriously, Perez has done some serious research and the result is an amazingly well written and powerful book that will make you question the entire world around you. Or, if you‘re like me it will confirm everything you felt to begin with. 🤷🏽‍♀️ A must read!

This is excellent. Everyone should read it. Fantastic use of data to support so many things women already knew and so much we didn‘t.

🎧 I was thinking this book may never end before the end of chapter 1. DNF material.

Non-fiction. Very dry. Basically just a long list of statistics (?) to support ... WOMEN aren‘t equal & are treated like rubbish. Just not my kinda book I guess. IMO If you want to walk around with a chip on your shoulder because you were born without a penis this book may be for you. Thought tangent ... The Others ...

WAIT!! DETACHABLE PENIS!! 😆 ⭐️⭐️

I‘m a big old nerd, and I really like data. You know what‘s interesting? Most of the data sets used globally to inform technological and scientific development, urban planning, and social, economic, and politically policy is inherently biased. Against women. We live in a world where we collect data on assumed averages and commonalities which almost consistently exclude women. This is an engaging, thorough, frustrating, essential read.

This book is so eye-opening. She covers everything from why the lines for women‘s restrooms are so long (and why they shouldn‘t be) to how being left out of medical and safety research is literally killing women. The data gap, meaning the lack of inclusion of women, is so clearly shown in this book. I listened to the audiobook but also got a hard copy so I can reference its information more easily. #NFNov

I could have quoted most pages in this book, but this kind of captures the idea. Women are left out of decisions and left out of research because men are seen as the default. #NFNov

I‘ve been working my way through this book and the section I listened to today was about the issues in women‘s medical care because they are left out of medical research. #TIL women are literally dying bc they aren‘t included in initial medical research. She has talked a lot about the “default male” which means in research, men are considered “normal” people while women are something else, leading to their symptoms being ignored. #TIL #NFNov

This needles me so hard. It‘s absolutely freezing at work (as in, wind whistling through the window frames and icy cold walls) and they won‘t turn the heating up, so we‘ve been advised to wear warmer clothing. I‘ve been wearing a blanket scarf, which apparently is not allowed, as it‘s not ‘appropriate‘ 🤷🏻‍♀️ They‘re trying to save on heating bills, so I‘ve bought an electric heater and am using it all day out of spite. 😂

I‘m spending an hour in front of my SAD lamp as I‘ve been feeling a bit miserable recently. Does anyone else have one and if so, does it work? I‘ve only been using it for a couple of days, so I can‘t comment just yet...

Reading is the thread that‘s run throughout 2019 for me. I‘m so glad I challenged myself to read more this year - I said 100 books originally, smashed it months ago and then increased it so that I could continue. I‘m on the cusp of completing my challenge of 149/150 books in 2019. I‘m proud of this achievement and happy that this is the book that will see me achieving it. 📖 📚 💯

I‘m sad to say that I can believe this, knowing how nervous situations make me and other women I know feel. Sometimes it‘s not clear to men that we feel this way because they don‘t. A sad state of affairs for half of the population in many countries worldwide.

Yesssssss!!!

“The more hostile voters were toward women, the more likely they were to support Trump.”

This makes total sense, since Trump is the biggest misogynist going.

This book has been on my TBR forever, and it is the Audible member deal of the day today. I took that as a sign I should pick it for my #NFNov audiobook for this week. I expect to learn a lot.

Not sure why this is still in the reading pile here: I finished it and lent it to my sister months ago. I don‘t agree with all of CCP‘s thinking but this book makes a powerful, data-driven case that unconscious sexism kills women and harms men.

"Men go without saying, and women don't get said at all.” That quote is a gut punch because it is so true. At its core Invisible Women Caroline Criado Perez from Abrams Press is about discrimination. The data gap may not be malicious or even something done on purpose, but it exists and perpetuates gender inequality around the world in small and big ways. You can read the entire book review at https://onthebl.org/2019/09/16/invisible-women

It‘s hard to listen to all the ways women are disadvantaged by default of design. From medical care to bullet proof vests, some things just aren‘t designed for women in mind. The impact on income, status, mortality and more is just startling though. A must read to know the statistical risks we live with every day. fascinating...

Men are seen as the default gender to such an extent that women are forgotten in the data and this has led to outcomes that make life not only more inconvenient and uncomfortable for women, but dangerous with life-threatening conditions disregarded, unsafe designs, and many other impacts of gender bias. Eye-opening read. One can only hope that the world stops seeing women as atypical and too difficult to include in studies bc of hormones.

"the chroniclers of the past have left little space for women's role in the evolution of humanity, whether cultural or biological. Instead, the lives of men have been taken to represent those of humans overall."

Back on the audios and bloody loving this mates

If you‘re human, you should read this. Can‘t say enough good things about it, but it speaks for itself.

I realized I want to shout large portions of this from the rooftop. That will make me fun at parties. But if you get a chance, I recommend this book.

Not finished yet, but this is so good! It‘s one of those books you feel that everyone needs to read.

This is not a book to be taken lightly. I'm sure there are people who would say that this is too feminist or some such, however this catalogue of how at least 50% of the population are treated as ignorable and hysterical when the received wisdom clashes with fact.

Reading and eating-it‘s the little things sometimes 😊

Made three jars and half a jar is gone already. Love leekchi omelettes 😋

http://www.pbs.org/food/kitchen-vignettes/leekchi/

Wow. This is required reading. Excuse me while I build a bunker to live in because I‘m now very afraid for my life as a woman but no biggie.

Oh man, women are just not taken into account. I have had people comment about how our kitchen is low, yes, because I'm short. Apparently people don't ask for their kitchen to be lower. I've just got to the part where Piano Keyboards are not women friendly, yeah, it's the reason I only got to grade 7 (out of 8 then diploma in music) I could feel the active damage I was doing and with a ganglion already I didn't want more.

This is an important book. It‘s one of those books you want to buy a million copies of and give to everyone (er, man, every man). It‘s also one of those books that will only be read by the people who already get it sadly. It will enrage you, make you want to burn it all down. But it‘s worth it. #readwomen #audiobook

This book indirectly/unintentionally gave me the perfect understanding of the value of gender-based analysis and the sorts of initiatives it can inspire. It highlights so many areas where women are shortchanged in society and even includes examples of success -- we just need to get on with it and get some stuff done! This book pairs well with Inferior, by Angela Saini.

When you find an inaccuracy in a book that‘s about data facts - and I know this is inaccurate as it‘s part of my job- how do you trust all the other facts??
The first TEF results were published in 2017....a simple google search would tell you this so why she‘s saying 2020 I don‘t know 🤷‍♀️

This book is largely about how the assumption of the male as the default harms women, their health, their prospects, their livelihood, and their families. One cannot escape how our entire society is harmed when women are underrepresented in companies, government, and data. One thing that will truly stick with me from this book is the question, “Has this data been sex-disaggregated?”

Book Mail! Part two of my Christmas present from my Mom came today. ❤️📚
I‘m starting this one immediately!

#yearofreading #shakespeareandcompany

fascinating and infuriating! Perez takes you through a relentless summary of the ways in which the world treats male as the standard & female (if considered) an aberration. From office temps, city planning, politics and car safety through to a genuinely heartbreaking chapter on the medical industry this book warns us of the risks when women are excluded from data and how that risk accelerates as we become more automated. go read this now! ⬇️⬇️

#invisibletouch #anglophileapril
Brought a couple of weeks ago and haven‘t got to it yet!

I bought this after seeing it mentioned everywhere following NASA cancelling the all-female space walk for lack of enough suits in the right sizes. I‘m only a few chapters in, but so far, excellent. Good and infuriating fodder for fueling rage.

Excellent and infuriating read (for women) exploring the 'data gap' where women are not included or considered in a multitude of issues.
Impacting the health, safety and living conditions of women, who are 50% of the world's population. Had a deja vu moment during the ER bit.

Brought this home the day the first 2 woman space walk was canceled due to there not being 2 suits available fit smaller frames.

#nonfiction2019 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Ready to get angry!

Settling in with a decaf latte, piece of s'mores bar and a new book! Once I'm done drinking and eating, I will put on the sheet mask for a perfect night of relaxation 😍

I am still reading this one - it‘s ages since I have read something so slowly but the power of the data and the stories contained to drive me to frustration / rage / sadness means I have been eking it out. It‘s all the more powerful for the factual non interpretive tone. I‘m not even half way in but the desire to DO something on reading is massive

Latest audible purchase #audible

My Women‘s History Month purchases! I have really been looking forward to the tagged book. Have you read any of these? #bookhaul

Got this earlier this week.

Greeting from sunny Munich where I can currently hear the glockenspiel playing from my open window! Really enjoying this one, but have highlighted half the book!