Data bias: when the focus is other than humans...
I've heard many explanations or excuses for why men think that women do not occupy certain spaces, whether that's upper management, upper positions of sorts, or whether that's playing poker or whatever the other reasons or spaces are we might point to. But there's often more going on than simply quote unquote, women can't cut it or women are afraid, et cetera. First, we can't assume that that bush that's moving is the wind
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:16
In the past, I've smarked because I'm thinking you can even see their disposition change a little from I'm the know it all provider to and I'm speaking of the female to having a little bit more grace and understanding because they've been knocked down to be reminded you're just a woman. And I'm not saying that as it's of being a woman is bad but the maledominated essence of the healthcare
And then so women have more side effects. Same thing with seatbelts. They're always designed to test for a larger framed human men. And so women end up getting hurt more with seatbelts than men do. All of these little things where you look at the default being man and it discounts a whole good portion of the population. And then I think there's like this internal battle, at least for women anyway, of wanting to I am woman, hear me roar
And because of all of that, it is really interesting when the topic comes up around. There's a book about designing downtowns for women, because most downtowns are not designed using women as the designers or with the unique experiences of women in mind to all the things that have been already brought up in the conversation. And it's really costing a lot of money, it turns out
Do you happen to remember the name of this book? It sounds really intriguing because it reminds me of one of the first topics in this particular book. She talked about snow removal and the assumptions made behind the order of removing snow from roads prior to pedestrian spaces and so on, but how that affected women and how they had to reanalyze. And look at how women move through the cities and what they're doing and how the ripple out effects were from transportation to healthcare to snow removal, et cetera
