—The modern world revolves around data, but because data treats men (not women) as the default, bias against women is inherent in the systems that run our lives—
The Non-fiction Feature
Invisible Women
Author: Caroline Criado Perez
Publisher: Abrams Press
Pages: 488 | 2021
We like to think that the unpaid work women do is just about individual women caring for their individual family members to their own individual benefit.
It isn’t…When the government cuts public services that we all pay for with our taxes, demand for those services doesn’t suddenly cease. The work is simply transferred onto women…
The Memoir Spot
The Girls Who Went Away – The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe v. Wade
by Ann Fessler
“Yet another myth in common currency is that these women did move on and forget.
In truth, none of the mothers I interviewed was able to forget. Rather, they describe the surrender of their child as the most significant and defining event of their lives.”
The Product Spot
UN Women Data Hub
The UN Women Data Hub has reports on data on security and violence against women across the world, findings on how multiple countries left behind women in pandemic responses, and a comprehensive library of resources.