S9 EP10 Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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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 If you loved it you know what to do - leave us a review, a rating (hopefully 5 stars) and share it with someone you know will love it too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host, as always, Dr. Hazel.
0:10.4	It's our season finale and to finish off what for me has been an epic season anyway, is a guest who's inspired a lot of my work, including writing The Female Factor.
0:21.1	Our guest today is none other than Caroline Corita Perez, a best-selling author and award-winning
0:27.4	writer, broadcaster, and award-winning feminist campaigner. Her number one Sunday Times best-selling
0:34.1	second book, Invisible Women, exposing data bias and a world design for men.
0:38.9	Published in 2019 has been translated into 30 languages and is winner of the 2019 Royal Society
0:46.2	Science Book Prize. The 2019 Books are My Bag Reader's Choice Award and the 2019 Financial
0:53.2	Times Business Book of the Year Award.
0:55.5	So a number of awards for that book and I can absolutely let you guys know that it is one of my
1:01.0	favorite books. If you haven't read it yet, you must. Caroline was also 2013 recipient of the
1:07.4	Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year Award and was named an OBE in the Queen's
1:12.1	birthday honours 2015. In 2020, she was the recipient of Finland's Han Award for Promoting Equality.
1:19.9	In this episode, we dive into the gender data gap and how the world is typically set up for a male
1:24.8	body from mobile phones to car seats.
1:29.9	Today's episode is brought to you by Whoop.
1:34.0	If you're a weekly listener to the podcast, you already know what Whoop is because I'm always talking about it.
1:35.5	So you probably already know that Whoop is a digital health and fitness coach that
1:39.8	specialises in breaking down your recovery, sleep and workouts via a non-invasive wearable device
1:46.5	and companion app. But it's probably also worth talking about what whoop doesn't do.
1:52.1	It's not going to ding on your wrist when you get a text. It's not going to call you an Uber.
1:57.0	It doesn't tell you the time. What it does track is every heartbeat throughout your day and break down all your data for you so you understand everything you need to know about your body.
2:07.0	As a medical doctor, PT and nutritionist, this is the kind of data I love to geek out on.
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