And it’s completely untrue to how women and people live their lives. It’s this idea that you just go home and you sleep. This man drives to work and conceives of home as a place of leisure, so you don’t have as many services you can just have a residential area. One of the big problems with the way we’ve laid out cities is that they’ve been laid out in such a way to serve the needs of this mythical male breadwinner who has a wife home in the suburbs. More long term, it really is about the design of cities themselves and looking again at zoning laws. That’s one easy way of addressing the male bias in transport infrastructure in a relatively short order. But bus routes are very easy to change and the thing about buses is that, in some places, women are much more likely to use buses. When new lines are added and new stations are added, absolutely those things should be taken into consideration. The obvious one is to move bus routes because, as you say, things like subways are fixed and it’s much more expensive to change them. How do you fix something like that when the transportation systems are so firmly embedded?ĬCP: There are a number of things that can be done. You point out that in some societies, women walk more than men, and that the way they lump trips and errands together-referred to as trip-chaining-and even their safety isn’t really considered. LG: Transportation, and really more broadly city planning, is something else you cover quite a bit in the book. So we’re outsourcing the future to private companies that are using biased data sets, and there’s no way of knowing what’s going on there. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity and includes information provided in follow-up emails.Īnd this is often proprietary software, so we don’t always get to see whether gender bias is being accounted for.
But despite the occasional meandering, Invisible Women often arrives right back at the same seemingly inevitable conclusion: There exists a real gender data gap that is “both a cause and a consequence of the type of unthinking that conceives of humanity as almost exclusively male.”Ĭriado Perez spoke to WIRED about the book. The 321-page book is a rapid-fire delivery of data sets, making it more of an academic tome than a light and hopeful read to take with you on summer vacation.
In her new book Invisible Women, Criado Perez examines different elements of the modern world that appear to be designed with less consideration for women: Transportation systems, medical devices and treatments, tax structures, consumer products, even the smartphones and voice-recognition technologies we use every day. And her Women’s Room database of female experts tries to ensure that more women are tapped as sources in the media.
Criado Perez has also been a vocal critic of Twitter’s policies around abusive tweets, since she herself has been the target of severe Twitter harassment. Separated crawler, data pipeline, and web server into different microservice to increase availability.Caroline Criado Perez is a social activist and journalist who, in 2017, successfully campaigned for British banknotes to feature the image of Jane Austen, after the Bank of England said it would be phasing out Elizabeth Fry's portrait in favor of Winston Churchill. A Youbike monitoring app which requests data from official Youbike API to identify bike lending / returning patterns and observe abnormal situations occurred from different bike stations.
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