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Book recommendation: Invisible Women - a very well sourced book on bias (specifically gender bias)
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<blockquote data-quote="yrp" data-source="post: 611336" data-attributes="member: 3901"><p>Don't take the author's thoughts to be blaming you or other men for causing a problem. It's not trying to assign blame to one gender vs the other. It's rather pointing out the man being the "default" is causing a lot of problems that disproportionately affect women, and the fact that we should collect gendered data to see how policies affect either gender. </p><p></p><p>Your example of iPhone fitting a man's hand is a good one - it shows that lack of diversity in the workplace at, say apple, is causing a bad user experience for 50% of customers. It's in apple's best interest to fix this. And thus in apple's best interest to increase the representation of women in their company, etc. </p><p></p><p>Again, you don't have to read the whole book, but I'd encourage you to read the first chapter (or even the first few pages of that chapter) and see whatyou think. </p><p></p><p>Maybe I will post an excerpt if I can find one online</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yrp, post: 611336, member: 3901"] Don't take the author's thoughts to be blaming you or other men for causing a problem. It's not trying to assign blame to one gender vs the other. It's rather pointing out the man being the "default" is causing a lot of problems that disproportionately affect women, and the fact that we should collect gendered data to see how policies affect either gender. Your example of iPhone fitting a man's hand is a good one - it shows that lack of diversity in the workplace at, say apple, is causing a bad user experience for 50% of customers. It's in apple's best interest to fix this. And thus in apple's best interest to increase the representation of women in their company, etc. Again, you don't have to read the whole book, but I'd encourage you to read the first chapter (or even the first few pages of that chapter) and see whatyou think. Maybe I will post an excerpt if I can find one online [/QUOTE]
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