Caroline Criado Perez has spent years investigating the gender data gap – and how women are simply forgotten in a world designed for men. Her best-selling book, Invisible Women, was published to critical acclaim, and Caroline was inundated with readers sharing their own stories of the “default male”.In her new podcast Caroline investigates what happens next: how can we close the gender data gap and design a world that works for everyone? Caroline will hunt for missing data, get in fights with manufacturing companies, and find the people who are working to close the gender data gap. You'll hear expert guests, gripping stories, and plenty of inspiration.Follow Visible Women wherever you get your podcasts.Bonus episodes featuring behind the scenes chats, rants, and stories from Caroline’s community of generic female pals will be released every Friday for Tortoise members and Tortoise+ subscribers on Apple Podcasts...
https://shows.acast.com/visible-women-with-caroline-criado-perez
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 hours 40 minutes
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episode 6: 2.6 The contraceptive headache
If you ask any woman whether she’s happy with her contraception, chances are she’ll say no - but that she’s settled for the best of a bad bunch. In this episode, Caroline asks why our options are stuck in the 1960s.
episode 5: 2.5 Waiting for the ladies
Caroline is sent photos of women’s toilet queues on an almost daily basis, since writing in her book Invisible Women about how women’s queues are always longer than the men’s
episode 4: 2.4 The day the women went on strike
In October 1975, the women of Iceland took a 'day off', leading to national chaos. It highlighted the importance of women’s roles in the economy, of which unpaid care work - cooking, cleaning, caring for family - is a vital part.
episode 3: 2.3 The concussed female brain
New research suggests that many women experience repeated concussions as a result of domestic abuse. In this episode, Caroline meets the people working in this under-researched area, and hears from a woman who is still recovering from her own experience
episode 2: 2.2 Are pianos sexist?
The standard piano keyboard is too big for 87% of women and 25% of men, limiting the range of pieces they can play. But how did pianos end up this size? Is it time we came up with an alternative? The Visible Women team investigates.
A statement from Visible Women
We’re taking a short break from publishing Visible Women in line with national mourning for the death of Queen Elizabeth II. We’ll be back soon with more episodes.
episode 1: 2.1 Murderous menstrual blood
Periods are terrifying. Well, men have certainly seemed to think so. All the way back to Roman times, the male chroniclers of the human condition have agreed on one thing: menstruation is unseemly, ungodly and just plain horrible.
Introducing Season 2: Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
Investigating the data gap in everything from periods to pianos, Caroline Criado Perez is back for a second season of Visible Women
episode 6: 6. Privacy vs the gender data gap
Caroline has spent over a decade calling for more data to be collected on women -- but in this episode the Visible Women team investigates: what happens when that data gets used against us?
episode 5: 5. The curious case of Percy Pig and the missing pocket
In this episode the Visible Women team try to get to the bottom of one of the world’s most trying problems: the paucity of pockets in women’s clothes compared to men’s.
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