Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster, and feminist activist, named Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year and OBE by the Queen. She has a degree in English language and literature from the University of Oxford, and she studied behavioral and feminist economics at the London School of Economics. She lives in London.
"Invisible Women is a game-changer; an uncompromising blitz of
facts, sad, mad, bad and funny, making an unanswerable case and
doing so brilliantly. ... the ambition and scope -- and sheer
originality -- of Invisible Women is huge; no less than the story
of what happens when we forget to account for half of humanity. It
should be on every policymaker, politician and manager's
shelves."-- "The Times (UK)"
"Invisible Women is an absorbing cornucopia of thought-provoking
facts - fascinating, alarming and face-palming in equal measures.
Caroline Criado Perez shows up the shortcomings of a world designed
for men by men. The consequences of treating men as the default
option, or women just as smaller men - if they get considered at
all - has wide-reaching implications for everything (and everyone)
from snow clearing to seat-belts and many branches of medicine. I
shall certainly think of this book next time I have a heart attack,
a car crash or just want to go to the toilet at the
theatre."--Georgina Rippon "Professor Emeritus of Cognitive
Neuroimaging, Aston University"
"As Invisible Women illuminates, in an almost overwhelming way,
communities pay tremendous costs for the gender data gap: costs of
income, time, women's health, and sometimes women's lives."--
"Bustle"
"Brilliant ... Invisible Women lays out in impressive detail the
many ways that human beings are presumed to be male, as well as the
wide-reaching effects of this distorted view of humanity."-- "Katha
Pollitt, The Nation"
"Even with all the progress women have made in the last few
decades, Invisible Women proves we still have a long way to go.
Reading this book--preferably in a comfortably warm room--is the
first step."-- "PureWow"
"Feminist campaigner, Caroline Criado-Perez left us gobsmacked with
Invisible Women, an in-depth look at how women are (still) excluded
in society." -- "Refinery29 (UK)"
"The thoroughness of Invisible Women doesn't detract from its
absolute readability. This is entertaining, scholarly and so very
important."--Adam Rutherford "author of A Brief History of Everyone
Who Ever Lived"
"There's a sense of rage simmering beneath the surface of Invisible
Women, every now and then it bubbles up in the text, but the book's
force doesn't derive from the power of its rhetoric - instead it's
the steady, unrelenting accumulation of evidence, the sheer weight
of her argument. ... Reading Invisible Women one might experience,
as I did, the dizzying sensation that so many of my own stories, so
many of my friends' stories, so many incidents I had experienced as
discrete and unrelated - at work, at home, on the streets, in
hospital - are in fact interconnected. As women, we are so used to
contorting ourselves to fit into men-shaped spaces, we've learned
to ignore how often it hurts."-- "The New Statesman"
"This book is a devastating indictment of institutionalised
complacency and a rallying cry to fight back... Invisible Women
should propel women into action."-- "Sunday Times (UK)"
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