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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Summary

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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host as always, Dr Hazel. It's
0:10.8	our season finale and to finish off what for me has been an epic season anyway is a guest
0:16.5	who's inspired a lot of my work, including writing the female factor. Our guest today
0:22.0	is none other than Caroline Caruda Perez, a best-selling author and award-winning writer,
0:28.2	called Caster, an award-winning feminist campaigner. Her number one Sunday Times best-selling second
0:34.4	book, Visible Women, exposing data bias and a world design for men, published in 2019 has been
0:40.7	translated into 30 languages and is winner of the 2019 Rural Society Science Book Prize. The 2019
0:48.8	Books are my bag readers' choice award and the 2019 Financial Times Business Book of the Year award.
0:55.8	A number of awards for that book and I can absolutely let you guys know that it is one of my
1:00.9	favorite books. If you haven't read it yet, you you must. Caroline was also 2013 recipient of the
1:07.2	Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year award and was named an OBE in the Queen's Birthday
1:12.3	Honours 2015. In 2020 she was the recipient of Finland's Han Award for Promoting Equality.
1:19.8	In this episode we dive into the gender data gap and had the world as typically set up for a male
1:24.8	body from mobile phones to car seats. Today's episode is brought to you by Woop. If you're weekly
1:30.8	listener to the podcast you already know what Woop is because I'm always talking about it.
1:35.5	So you probably already know that Woop is a digital health and fitness coach that specialises
1:40.8	in breaking down your recovery, sleep and workouts, via a non-invasive wearable device and companion
1:47.2	app. But it's probably also worth talking about what Woop doesn't do. It's not going to ding on
1:53.2	your wrist when you get a text. It's not going to call you an Uber. It doesn't tell you the time.
1:58.5	What it does track is every heartbeat throughout your day and break down all your data for you so
2:03.9	you understand everything you need to know about your body. As a medical doctor, PT and nutritionist,
2:10.0	this is the kind of data I love to get on and over the years since Waring Woop it's been amazing
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