Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

This was really well researched and written, it felt like a huge fact dump without the tedium that usually comes with it.

The points here are unfortunately not too surprising, almost universally products and ideas are designed with the average person in mind, but the average person is actually the average man. In examples cited in this book, the failings repeated the most seemed to be the unaccounted for difference in size of the average male to the average female and the fact that women are far more likely to be the primary caregiver to dependents, though the book also dives into much more specific sex-based differences as well. Often times, it just reads as an inditement of capitalism in general, just point out that it treats women extremely disproportionately worse.

I like to think that I consider this sort of thing in my day-to-day life and work, but this book will certainly make me think harder about it and be more aware.

I listened to this via audiobook narrated by the author herself, which was really well done and felt more personal for it, I think. Highly recommend.