Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
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Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
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”...
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15 Episoden2.6 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 th...
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 alwa...
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 w...
2.3 The concussed female brain
After learning shocking data about concussions in women's rugby, Caroline takes a closer look, and discovers an even more widespread and worrying issu...
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 siz...
2.1 Murderous menstrual blood
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that periods are terrifying. Well, men have certainly seemed to think so. All the way back to Roman tim...
Introducing Season 2: Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
How do we fix a world designed for men? In this ambitious second season, Caroline will investigate data gaps in everything from endometriosis to the e...
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 happe...
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...
4. Deadly injustice: Why cars aren’t safe for women
If a woman is involved in a car crash, she is 17% more likely to die than a man in the same crash. In this episode, Caroline investigates why... and c...
3. Computer says no: is AI making healthcare worse for women?
Artificial intelligence has the potential to drastically improve so much of our lives. But it all depends on feeding the algorithms good data. Thanks...
2. Can playgrounds be sexist?
Girls around the world are being pushed to the edges of their own playgrounds – forced into corners, or under stairs, as boys dominate the space. Caro...
BONUS: The case for armoured bras
In the first Visible Women bonus episode, Caroline Criado Perez is joined by producer Hannah Varrall and data correspondent Patricia Clarke as she lis...
1. Morally Indefensible PPE
When the pandemic hit, Caroline Criado Perez was inundated with messages from female healthcare workers telling her that their PPE – things like masks...
Introducing: Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
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-sel...