Invisible Women: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day

Caroline Criado Perez

Mar 2019 · Vintage Digital · Narrated by Caroline Criado Perez

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*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*
*A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY*
*OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD*

Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of an audiobook edition, read by Caroline Criado Perez.

Imagine a world where...

· Your phone is too big for your hand
· Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body
· In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured.

If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you're a woman.

From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences. Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the profound impact this has on us all.

Find out more in Caroline's podcast, Visible Women.

'A book that changes the way you see the world' Sunday Times

'Revelatory, frightening, hopeful' Jeanette Winterson

'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that teaches you and never bores you' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin Moran

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* *A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY* *OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD* Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of an audiobook edition, read by Caroline Criado Perez. Imagine a world where... · Your phone...

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43 reviews

Damian Chodorek

May 6, 2025

I appreciate lots of data. It's not a scientific book. The author's opinions are mixed with the data without any explicit comments. There are a lot of examples showing inequality in a selected group of dimensions that are considered by the author as essential to life and where humanity should work on equality. Many implicit assumptions and conclusions presented as facts next to actual data. I really wanted to read it, but it is not helpful to me in the matter of inequality. It looks really solid, but because of the aforementioned reasons I felt it's confusing me more than presents facts:/ Probably it's better to read reports on equality and draw conclusions on my own.

Mignon Wells

June 19, 2021

I know so much of what this book covers but have spent a lifetime avoiding acknowledging the facts. This is an important book that is well written - and I particularly like that the audiobook is read by the author.

8hoovesbetter

October 21, 2019

I'm only about half way through this and its message is mind-blowing to me - and I thought I knew a bit about this topic. Who knew that even changing the snow-clearing priorities would save (women's) lives (and a local council's and health services' money)? This turns so many apparently equal services on their head. Like loos: men's loos and women's have equal floor space. What's wrong with that? Women, for various reasons including child and older people caring responsibilities and personal health issues, take 2.3 times longer than men using the facilities. Yes, that's why we always have to queue. Look more closely at supposed "equality"? Sports grants that favour boys' activities over girls'... not intentionally, but having a massive effect on girls by discouraging them from taking part in sport when they are young, so causing them health issues as they age. This is not "anti-men", it's pro genuine equality - so everyone is better off, has equal access to facilities, gets treated fairly. Gripping! Revolutionary! Eye-opening! A real "must read" for anyone who plans for and deals with people.

About the author

Caroline Criado Perez (Author, Reader)

Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster and award-winning feminist campaigner. Her most notable campaigns have included co-founding The Women’s Room, getting a woman on Bank of England banknotes and successfully campaigning for a statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett to be erected in Parliament Square.

Her groundbreaking examination of data bias, Invisible Women, was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, has sold 1 million copies in its UK editions alone and has been translated into 38 languages. It won the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, the Books Are My Bag Readers’ Choice Award and the Royal Society Science Book Prize. Caroline was the 2013 recipient of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year Award, was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015 and in 2025 won the Unwin Prize for non-fiction writers who have made a significant contribution to the world.

Caroline Criado Perez (Author, Reader) Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster and award-winning feminist campaigner. Her most notable campaigns have included co-founding The Women’s Room, getting a woman on Bank of England banknotes and successfully campaigning for a statue of suffragist...

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