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10. Check the Data: It’s a Man’s World

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The Gender Data Gap and Invisible Women

The gender data gap is not generally malicious or even deliberate. It is simply the product of a way of thinking that has been around for millennia. Because women aren't seen and aren't remembered, because male data makes up the majority of what we know, what is male comes to be seen as universal. In such a framing, women are set up to be forgettable, ignorable, dispensable from culture, from history, from data. And so women become invisible. The world as we know it was designed with one type of consumer in the mail. I actually did a self experiment when you were writing about the iphone size, and i tried to take single handed photographs, because

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