NAYGN Book Club – Invisible Women

Join us as we discuss “Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men”. This book is being sponsored by the Canadian Nuclear Society x Disruptive Innovative Emerging Technologies or CNS DIET. DIET provides a forum for collaboration and exchange on the impact of Disruptive, Innovative, and Emerging, Technologies in the nuclear sector.

This book looks at how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives.

Award-winning campaigner and writer 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 excluded from the very building blocks of the world we live in, and the impact this has on their health and wellbeing. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media – Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women. In making the case for change, this powerful and provocative book will make you see the world anew.