Writing style
Dense · Direct · Journalistic
Apple BooksInvisible Women
Social science
- First published
- 2019
- Print length
- 412 pagesPenguin Random House, 2019
Description
Invisible Women investigates how large-scale data collection can harm women when systems treat men as the default. Caroline Criado Perez argues that this bias embeds discrimination in everyday decisions, and she traces the pattern through homes, workplaces, public spaces, health care, and product design. Her examples include infrastructure designed around men’s travel patterns and medical research that underrepresents women. The book builds its case from hundreds of studies drawn from the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries. By bringing evidence from multiple settings together, it shows how gender gaps in data can become recurring features of the systems that shape ordinary life.
Reading profile
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Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Moderate
Tone
Cerebral · Earnest · Unsettling
Structure
Argumentative
Focus
Argument · Ideas · Information
Emotional intensity
4 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 3 / 5
- Ideas
- 4 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 2 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781473548299
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