Data, Claims, and Analyses on "Invisible Women"

Oregon Convention Center 

Room: CC-G131 

FOCUS & TIMELINESS
Activists, educators, and policy makers have a common pre-requisite for their work, that is sound data collection and analyses. In 2022, ASA Book Club read the "Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men" by Caroline Criado Perez. Afterwards, several participants and more came together to curate the claims, data, and research articles that provided the basis of the thesis in Invisible Women.

CONTENT
The author provides references and links in the book, yet we see the need to put on our "statistcal sleuthing" hats to process each data-based claim by tracking down the original sources and to create materials which would enable policy makers, educators, and students to be critical about the claims. In this session, we present three strands of this data curation activity. First, we talk about the educational values of the curation activity at two levels: the act of "sleuthing" forces us to trace what is lost in translation in the communication of results and how the results rely on data which may be collected under a mix of plausible and misguided assumptions. Second, we review the methods to address the gender-lined abuse issues at work and in personal relationships. Third, we provide a practitioner's perspective on data collection activity to minimize data bias.

APPEAL
The book points out many aspects of society where women are often not addressed as one of the constituents of product and policy development and motivates readers to think of ways to amend the situation. Our research and data curation activity aims to bring resources for activists, educators, or policy makers to make changes for the better.

Yes

Social Statistics Section

Caucus for Women in Statistics

Committee on Women in Statistics