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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.
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#tbrpile
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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.

I don‘t normally read books about statistics; they bore me. This book is anything but boring. It‘s well-written, readable, and anger-inducing. I knew statistics could be skewed, but it never occurred to me that women were deliberately being left out of studies. In medical studies, we‘re often left out because our hormones are too “messy” and might skew the data. You‘d think hormone differences would be essential to know in medicine. 😡 #SheSaid

Another book finished and this one had a powerful ending… I couldn‘t help but think about the current fight in the US about what‘s really “infrastructure” it felt like she was writing that part specifically for this moment. As a whole I felt like I got a lot out of this book, I hope all of you did too. ⤵️

#SheSaid

Another fantastic, thought-provoking book that I probably wouldn't have picked up if not for the #shesaid reading challenge. The author covered a wide array of areas where the female data gap has far-reaching and long-lasting effects. Excellent book! @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

in a 2004 Guardian article comedian Sandi Toksvig wrote about how when she was studying anthropology at university one of her female professors held up a photograph of an antler bone with twenty-eight markings on it. ‘This,‘ she said, ‘is alleged to be man‘s first attempt at a calendar.‘ We all looked at the bone in admiration. ‘Tell me,‘ she continued, ‘what man needs to know when 28 days have passed? I suspect that this is woman‘s first attempt

Serene cat looks super depressed by the statistics in this book, and I don't blame her.
While I study feminism it is still disheartening to see such a collection of how the world is underserving and devaluing women.
I do wish that non-binary and Trans people had been mentioned. We know that violence against the Trans community far outstrips any other community so that is a huge data gap missed here.

This book was so good! It examined the way lack of research and data effect women in the world. Everything from dying more in hospitals, being affected worse by pandemics and natural disasters, roles in governments, to seemingly small things like how kitchens are designed and how snow is plowed. If nothing, it highlights how sexism really is at the root of so many issues. Highly recommend!

This was definitely an interesting read. It gives a brief overview of many ways in which women aren't really considered at all, which is absurd since they are about half the population. The last chapters were especially interesting.

#SheSaid with @Riveted_Reader_Melissa
Final discussion on Sunday. Until then 🤐

#BookSpinBingo square 4
@TheAromaofBooks

Oh this was a hard part to read! Dealing with a chronic illness my whole life and seeing the gaslighting by doctors being so common, was tough to read, even though I can‘t say it‘s wrong…I wish I could. #SheSaid

What I learned from part 4 of this book is that women are often misdiagnosed, given incorrect treatment, and are potentially being denied lifesaving medicines because of the lack of data on how symptoms of some conditions differ in women. There‘s also a tendency to assume the pain women describe is all in their heads, and women are often excluded from clinical trials because of the “messiness” of dealing with our fluctuating hormones. 🤬 #SheSaid

I had to finish this one a bit early this week #SheSaid, and I can‘t wait to talk about it the next 2 weekends, but the library wanted it back and the wait list was long, so I needed to finish it up and return it. Needless to say, I learned a lot in this one, things I hadn‘t really thought about before, and I will be recommending this one a lot in the future I think. #MustRead

A short Part, but very impactful…for me at least. I‘m learning a lot, and a lot that I‘m finding rage inducing. I get that many things were designed by men, but how could they have never once considered what might be best for the other half of their demographic (their paying customers) besides maybe making it in pink? There are willing to try anything to increase sales, but apparently talk to women and include their needs? 🤯. ⤵️

#SheSaid

Well, now I know why my iPhone doesn‘t fit my hand comfortably (even though the majority of iPhone users are women) and why I‘m always jerking around on my seatbelt trying to make it more comfortable. I‘m also having to fight the urge to never get in a car again. #SheSaid