Book review: In a world designed for men, the effects for women range from inconvenient to fatal
By Caroline Criado Perez March 11 at 12:00 PM Close your eyes and picture a human being. Now picture a lawyer. Now a doctor. Now a scientist. Open your eyes and tell me honestly: were you picturing men or women?The male bias in our heads doesn’t surprise me anymore — although it was a shock when I first realized I was doing it.
This is not a grand conspiracy of men against women. It is simply a failure to remember that 51 percent of the population exists. But just because it isn’t deliberate doesn’t mean the gender data gap doesn’t have a serious impact on women’s lives: it does, and the effects for women living in a world designed for men range from inconvenient to fatal.
But it gets a lot worse than shivering in a male-temperature-biased office or not being able to use any of the top shelves in your home. The problem, to state the obvious, is that those complicated bodies are going to be taking the drugs anyway, so it would be good to have some data on how they interact, especially since the data we do have is so troubling. Menstrual-cycle impacts have so far been found for antipsychotics, antidepressants, antihistamines and antibiotic treatments as well as heart medication.
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