The Food Medic

S9 EP10 Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

The Food Medic

Show Notes

In this episode we are joined by Caroline Criado Perez - a best-selling and award-winning writer, broadcaster and award-winning feminist campaigner.Her #1 Sunday Times best-selling second book, INVISIBLE WOMEN: Exposing DataBias in a World Designed for Men, published in 2019, has been translated into 30 languages and is the winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, the 2019 Books Are My Bag Reader’s Choice Award, and the 2019 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award.This episode covers: When Caroline became a feminist

What inspired her to write invisible women

Why cars are less safe for women

How medical research and healthcare is based towards men

Male bias in PPE design (and nobody cares!!)

Progress for women and girls

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