Invisible Women

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster and award-winning feminist campaigner. Her most notable campaigns have included co-founding The Women's Room, getting a woman on Bank of England banknotes and successfully campaigning for a statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett to be erected in Parliament Square. Her groundbreaking examination of data bias, Invisible Women , was a number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, has sold 1 million copies in its UK editions alone and has been translated into 38 languages. It won the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, the Books Are My Bag Readers' Choice Award and the Royal Society Science Book Prize. Caroline was the 2013 recipient of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year Award, was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015 and in 2025 won the Unwin Prize for non-fiction writers who have made a significant contribution to the world. Klappentext THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of a book. 'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that teaches you and never bores you' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ' HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin Moran Imagine a world where... · Your phone is too big for your hand · Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body · In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you're a woman. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences. Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the profound impact this has on us all. Find out more in Caroline's podcast, Visible Women . 'A book that changes the way you see the world' Sunday Times 'Revelatory, frightening, hopeful' Jeanette Winterson Zusammenfassung THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives. ' HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin Moran Imagine a world where... · Your phone is too big for your hand · Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body · In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you're a woman. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences. Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the profound impact this has on us all. Find out more in Caroline's new podcast, Visible Women . 'A book that changes the way you see the world' Sunday Times 'Revelatory, frightening, hopeful' Jeanette Winterson ...

Autorentext

Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster and award-winning feminist campaigner. Her most notable campaigns have included co-founding The Women's Room, getting a woman on Bank of England banknotes and successfully campaigning for a statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett to be erected in Parliament Square.

Her groundbreaking examination of data bias, Invisible Women, was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, has sold 1 million copies in its UK editions alone and has been translated into 38 languages. It won the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, the Books Are My Bag Readers' Choice Award and the Royal Society Science Book Prize. Caroline was the 2013 recipient of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year Award, was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015 and in 2025 won the Unwin Prize for non-fiction writers who have made a significant contribution to the world.

Klappentext

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY
OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD

Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of a book.

'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that teaches you and never bores you' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin Moran

Imagine a world where...

· Your phone is too big for your hand
· Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body
· In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured.

If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you're a woman.

From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences. Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the profound impact this has on us all.

Find out more in Caroline's podcast, Visible Women.

'A book that changes the way you see the world' Sunday Times

'Revelatory, frightening, hopeful' Jeanette Winterson

Zusammenfassung

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD

Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives.

'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin Moran

Imagine a world where...

· Your phone is too big for your hand
· Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body
· In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured.

If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you're a woman.

From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences. Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the profound impact this has on us all.

Find out more in Caroline's new podcast, Visible Women.

'A book that changes the way you see the world' Sunday Times

'Revelatory, frightening, hopeful' Jeanette Winterson