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I really dislike conspiracy theories – in fact, few things make me angrier. The reason is that a conspiracy generally involves people plotting and planning and those people who are assumed to have the power to bring the conspiracy into effect generally have been shown in history to be pretty stupid Leggi tutto

I don't know who would possibly want a man's opinion on a book about the problems with male default bias, but... here's my review. This is essentially a collection of statistics which entail how systems made by men and for men are minimizing and marginalizing the other 50% of the population. It does Leggi tutto

This is a really good comprehensive investigation of how a failure to account for gender based needs and requirements results in a bias towards cis men. This is exactly why the casual cissexism embedded in it is so unfortunate and harmful. Perez critics the continuous overlooking of women and women's Leggi tutto

Simply said, if someone is in power, he tries to make a policy that meets his wishes and reflects the image of the society, company, etc he wants to build. This can be done in a direct, evil way by treating minorities, women, atheists, etc. with repression until imprisonment, torture and death if th Leggi tutto

There is so much relevant, important, fascinating, and deeply troubling information here about the ways in which the world, in big and small ways, is built for white men. BUT. I have to give this book two stars for its appalling erasure of trans and nonbinary people. The words themsleves (transgende Leggi tutto

Invisible Women is the story of what happens when we forget to account for half of humanity. It is an exposé of how the gender data gap harms women when life proceeds, more or less as normal. In urban planning, politics, the workplace. It is also about what happens to women living in a world built o Leggi tutto

Q: Most of recorded human history is one big data gap. Starting with the theory of Man the Hunter, 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 o Leggi tutto

Written by a feminist who is looking for inequalities and finds them everywhere. Well, in the direction of the "female victim". It's fair to discuss heart attack symptoms differing in men and women and certainly this info. should get out there, especially as women become more obese. She mentioned th Leggi tutto