Episode 6: Privacy vs the gender data gap
Caroline has spent over a decade calling for more data to be collected on women – but what happens when that data gets used against us?
Podcast
Visible Women
with Caroline Criado Perez
I’ve spent years investigating the gender data gap, and how women are simply forgotten in a world designed for men. In this new 12-part podcast series from Tortoise, I’ll hunt for missing data, get into fights with manufacturing companies and, with the help of expert guests, try to figure out how to solve such a giant problem.
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Episodes
Bonus: The women in Britain being arrested for abortion
We are used to hearing about “illegal” abortion in the context of the US, but there are two women currently being prosecuted for having an abortion in the UK. Do we need to decriminalise abortion in Britain?
Episode 5: The curious case of Percy Pig and the missing pocket
In this episode the Visible Women team try to get to the bottom of one of the world’s most trying problems: the paucity of pockets in women’s clothes compared to men’s. Caroline speaks to a pocket historian, learns to make her own pocket, and takes on some troubling mysteries
Bonus: Should we make tie-on pockets happen?
Caroline sews her own tie-on pocket and takes it on a trip around London – with nearly disastrous consequences
Episode 4: Deadly injustice – why cars aren’t safe for women
If a woman is involved in a car crash, she is 17 per cent more likely to die than a man in the same crash. In this episode, Caroline investigates why, and comes up with a campaign to fix crash testing
Bonus: Women miss out on life saving medicine
In this bonus episode we get to hear more from Dr Tim Nutbeam, the researcher behind the finding that women are nearly twice as likely as men to get trapped in a car following a crash. Tim talks Caroline through the even more shocking sex disparity he uncovered subsequently – and explains how we nearly didn’t get to see any of this research at all
Episode 3: Computer says no – is AI making healthcare worse for women?
Artificial intelligence has the potential to drastically improve so much of our lives. But in a world where women’s heart attacks are already systematically under-diagnosed, AI might actually be making healthcare worse for women
Bonus: The voice recognition AI that can’t hear women
In this bonus episode, Caroline Criado Perez speaks to a woman called Hayley Moulding about her experience of AI-gone-wrong – and tries to get to the bottom of why voice recognition software is so bad at recognising women’s voices
Episode 2: Can playgrounds be sexist?
Girls around the world are being pushed to the edges of their own playgrounds – forced into corners, or under stairs, as boys dominate the space. Caroline finds the data that shows why this matters — and asks what we can do to fix it. She also whizzes down some slides in the name of research.
Bonus episode: The urban design making Barcelona better for women
In this bonus episode, Caroline Criado Perez speaks to a feminist architect and urban planner about superillas – street blocks that are designed to be friendlier, more sociable and safer for children. The Visible Women team goes to investigate.
Episode 1: Morally Indefensible PPE
When the pandemic hit, Caroline Criado Perez was inundated with messages from female healthcare workers telling her that their PPE – things like masks and goggles – didn’t fit. In this first episode of her brand new investigative series, join Caroline as she goes on the hunt for missing data and asks: can we fix PPE?
Bonus episode: The case for armoured bras
In the first Visible Women bonus episode, Caroline Criado Perez is joined by producer Hannah Varrall and data correspondent Patricia Clarke as she listens to tales of ill-fitting PPE sent in by listeners. They discuss everything from offshore survival suits to armoured bras – and how they never quite fit.