“Women have always worked. They have worked unpaid, underpaid, underappreciated, and invisibly, but they have always worked. But the modern workplace does not work for women. From its location, to its hours, to its regulatory standards, it has been designed around the lives of men and it is no longer fit for purpose. The world of work needs a wholesale redesign - of its regulations, of its equipment, of its culture - and this redesign must be led by data on female bodies and female lives. We have to start recognising that the work women do is not an added extra, a bonus that we could do without: women's work, paid and unpaid, is the backbone of our society and our economy. It's about time we started valuing it.” - Caroline Criado Perez (Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men)

“Big Data. Which in turn is panned for Big Truths by Big Algorithms, using Big Computers. But when your big data is corrupted by big silences, the truths you get are half-truths, at best. And often, for women, they aren’t true at all...Artificial intelligence that helps doctors with diagnoses, that scan CVs, even that conducts interviews with potential job applicants, is already common. But AIs have been trained on data sets that are riddled with data gaps - and because algorithms are often protected as proprietary software, we can’t even examine whether these gaps are being taken into account.” - Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias In A World Designed For Men

“Sex is not the reason women are excluded from data. Gender is. The female body is not the problem. The problem is the social meaning that we ascribe to that body, and a socially determined failure to account for it…The gender data gap is both a cause, and a consequence of the type of unthinking that conceives of humanity as almost exclusively male…Seeing men as the human default is fundamental to the structure of human society…If human evolution is driven by men, are women even human?” - Caroline Criado Perez (Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men)

“Most of recorded human history is one big data gap. Starting with the theory of Man the Hunter, the chroniclers of the past have left little space for women's role in the evolution of humanity, whether cultural or biological. Instead, the lives of men have been taken to represent those of humans overall.” - Caroline Criado Perez (Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men)

“The presumption that what is male is universal is a direct consequence of the gender data gap. Whiteness and maleness can only go without saying because most other identities never get said at all. But male universality is also a cause of the gender data gap: because women aren’t seen and aren’t remembered, because male data makes up the majority of what we know, what is male comes to be seen as universal. It leads to the positioning of women, half the global population, as a minority. With a niche identity, and a subjective point of view. In such a framing, women are set up to be forgettable. Ignorable. Dispensable - from culture, from history, from data. And so, women become invisible.” - Caroline Criado Perez (Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men)