The landmark prize-winning international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women. #1 International Bestseller * Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender because it treats men as the default and women as atypical bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias: in time in money and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates this shocking root cause of gender inequality in Invisible Women. Examining the home the workplace the public square the doctor s office and more Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women s lives. Product designers use a one-size-fits-all approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. Cities prioritize men s needs when designing public transportation roads and even snow removal neglecting to consider women s safety or unique responsibilities and travel patterns. And in medical research women have largely been excluded from studies and textbooks leaving them chronically misunderstood mistreated and misdiagnosed. Built on hundreds of studies in the United States in the United Kingdom and around the world and written with energy wit and sparkling intelligence this is a groundbreaking highly readable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.