Invisible Women
by Caroline Criado Perez
★ Top 25 book of 2019 · #22 on Best Books of 2019
Caroline Criado Perez shows how data that treats men as the standard leaves women overlooked, with costs in time, money and sometimes lives. Drawing on hundreds of studies, she looks at product design, city planning and medical research to reveal built-in bias.
Best for: Readers curious about how data and design shape gender inequality
Invisible Women is #22 on BookWard's Best Books of 2019, out of 84 2019 books that cleared our data bar.
What Invisible Women is about
Criado Perez makes a clear, forceful argument: a great deal of the data used to design our world fails to account for gender. Men are treated as the default and women as the exception, and that bias gets built into systems, so women pay for it in time, money and often with their lives.
She takes the reader through the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office and more. Pianos, cell phones and voice recognition software are made to fit men. Cities plan public transportation, roads and snow removal around men's needs, overlooking women's safety and the way they actually travel. The tone is analytical and pointed, with real anger behind it. It will help designers, policymakers and employers see what they have been missing, and any reader curious about why so much of the world seems to fit someone else.
Invisible Women on the Best Books of 2019
Invisible Women came out in 2019. Of the 84 books first published in 2019 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #22 on our Best Books of 2019 list.
Why it made the list: 333 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.5 out of 5 (35 ratings). The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.
It earns Reader favorite.
Nearby on the 2019 list
- This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar, #20
- The House in the Cerulean Sea T. J. Klune, #21
- Permanent Record Edward Snowden, #23
- Anxious People Fredrik Backman, #24
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The numbers behind it
- Readers: 282 want to read it, 10 are reading it now and 41 have read it, according to Open Library.
- Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 from 35 Open Library ratings.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 60 | 55% |
| Reader love | 95 | 25% |
| Being read right now | 50 | 20% |
Questions about Invisible Women
When was Invisible Women published?
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez was first published in 2019.
Was Invisible Women one of the best books of 2019?
Invisible Women is #22 on BookWard's Best Books of 2019, out of 84 2019 books that cleared our data bar. 333 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.5 out of 5 (35 ratings).
Why is Invisible Women on the Best Books of 2019 list?
333 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.5 out of 5 (35 ratings).
More of the best books of 2019
- Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston, #1
- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Holly Jackson, #2
- Heartstopper, Volume 2 Alice Oseman, #3
- Guts Raina Telgemeier, #4
- The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides, #5
- The Wicked King Holly Black, #6
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