Free online event
How to close the gender data gap
A conversation with Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2020
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- What happens when half of the population isn’t reflected in data
- How a lack of data affects women’s daily lives
- What we can do to close the gender data gap
Speakers
Women are 47% more likely to be injured in a car accident.
In Britain, women are 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed following a heart attack.
Google’s voice recognition software is 70% more likely to recognise male voices.
From the banal to the life-threatening, in far too many circumstances, when it comes to data women simply disappear.
In her seminal book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez revealed the myriad ways in which the gender data gap puts women’s lives at risk. Join Apolitical in conversation with Caroline Criado Perez and learn about what we can do to close the gender data gap.
Who should watch
This workshop is for anyone who wants to learn about the impact of the gender data gap on daily life.
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Speakers
Caroline Criado-Perez
Caroline Criado-Perez, A best-selling and award-winning writer, broadcaster and award-winning feminist campaigner. Her #1 Sunday Times best-selling second book, INVISIBLE WOMEN: exposing data bias in a world designed for men, was published in March 2019 by Chatto & Windus in the UK & Abrams in the US. It was the winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, the 2019 Books Are My Bag Readers Choice Award, and the 2019 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award.
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