‘Invisible women’ in workplace


GMB national health, safety and environment officer Lynsey Mann used International Women’s Day in early March to highlight new research by the feminist campaigner and writer, Caroline Criado Perez. This shows how biased data in government policy, medical research, technology and the workplace excludes women.


In Invisible women: exposing data bias in a world designed for men, Criado Perez found, for example, that workplace chemical exposures limits are not set separately for men and women and take no account of age or the “double exposure” many women face because they carry out the same kind of tasks and are exposed to the same kind of hazards at work and home.


www.gmb.org.uk/long-read/why-work-more-dangerous-us-just-because-we-are-women

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/28/invisible-women-by-caroline-criado-perez-review