Caroline Criado Perez and Tracy King on the gender data gap that's putting lives at risk

This article has been published to coincide with an episode of Mashable's new podcast, History Becomes Her. Listen here.

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez exposes the erasure of women in a world that’s been designed by men for men — and men alone. In this world, women sit shivering in offices set to male temperatures, they hold phones that are too big for their hands, they struggle to reach the rail on the tube set to a male height. 

Writer and activist Tracy King ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to send a copy of the book to every MP in the UK in the hope that lawmakers will take action against the gender data gap at the heart of this systemic discrimination. Those books have now been delivered to every single MP. Read more...