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Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez — WisdomDeck honest review

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Invisible Women

by Caroline Criado Perez

The gender data gap: crash dummies, drug trials, phone sizes, snow clearing, all designed around male defaults. Data-dense and infuriating.

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you want evidence that design forgets half the population.

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you want a quick read.

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Three things you will actually use

Default male is everywhere.
Collect sex-disaggregated data.
Design for everyone.

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The gender data gap.

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