The end of 2019 brings a lot of top 10 lists to the internet. Though I thought about doing a book “Year in Review” for you, I realized that there is one book that really stood out for me. This book, Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, was really a revelation for me and I think you will love it. So, let me tell you why.
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You might recall that Perez was among the key figures who campaigned to have Jane Austen’s likeness enshrined on British currency. You might also recall that we talked about the canceled spacewalk earlier this year. While the two were not intentionally related, Perez’s book provides a context for that situation: women’s needs were not met because the default for spacesuit design remains a man’s body. In space, as in many of the fields Perez explores, men are the default. Women are, at best, an aberration from the norm and, at worst, ignored altogether. Perez’s book provides ample evidence that the canceled spacewalk was just one symptom of a pervasive problem: the failure to study women and to account for women in the age of big data is a failure that costs women their health, careers, and—in some cases—their lives.
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