Why You Need to Read ‘Invisible Women’ Now
If you’re involved with setting policy, allocating funding, designing products or services and delivering on them, then one book you simply must have read is the absolutely astounding ‘Invisible Women’ by Caroline Criado Perez.
What Perez has done with this book is ALL OF THE RESEARCH you need to have available to you when you make decisions about your business. It is a jaw dropping piece of work for it lays bare just how badly things can go wrong, when you’re missing crucial data in your workplace, in your design team, in your strategy department.
Women reading the book will probably get angry. Sure you’ll have lived it, but just the extent of the battle in ALL domains of society is covered.
If you’re male, you might find this book confronting for it shows just how much your organisation is probably missing when it comes to making effective and profitable decisions. Trust me, you won’t like what it exposes, the short sightedness of the people you work with (maybe even your own thinking) and how that short sightedness is costing you hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars every year. Of course you’ll be concerned about the (now?) obvious social implications, and given the decision bias we all tend to cling to, this book is the starting point for change – just why do ‘we’ ignore this opportunity?
It’s worth the discussion. It’s an eye opener. And like a good family barbecue where the salads have been made, guests invited, house cleaned, meat bought, drinks organised, tables set, kids tendered for, all YOU have to do men, is read it. Like cooking the meat, knowing what’s in the book and acting on it will bring you high praise and huge benefits. Trust me though, the prep work has already been done.
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