In fact, they discovered that if you put all the unpaid care work travel together, it turned out that travel for those purposes was almost as much as travel for paid work. When Karlskoga’s plowing schedule was first designed, all this trip chaining done by women simply wasn’t factored in because it wasn’t considered work.īut actually, this work contributes hugely to GDP. And so women are much more likely to be walking, and women are much more likely to use public transport going on these local roads rather than just directly to a commercial area. For example, a typical travel day for a woman might involve dropping the kids off at school before she goes to work, picking up some groceries on the way home, maybe dropping in on an elderly relative. Women have these more complicated travel patterns which are called trip chaining. But it turns out the way many women travel is very different. You can see this in the way that most cities are laid out, with major arteries going in and out of downtown in what’s called an arterial system, which makes a lot of sense if you are a man. Men are far more likely to travel in a fairly simple way, using a car for a twice-daily commute in and out of the city center. It seemed about as genderless as you could get.īut, actually, it turned out this was heavily related to gender because male and female travel patterns are not the same. How can snow clearing have anything to do with gender?Īfter all, the city of Karlskoga plowed its streets the way you’d think all cities would plow their streets, starting with the major arteries followed by local roads and sidewalks. Someone said, “Well, obviously, snow clearing won’t have anything to do with gender.” It does sound, on the face of it, ridiculous. To demonstrate just how hard, Caroline started off by telling me a story that begins with a joke about gender.īasically, in this town called Karlskoga in Sweden, they were doing a gender analysis of all their local town policies. Is this a non-sweary podcast?Īnd honestly, Caroline Criado Perez has good reason to swear because this design flaw, in addition to being everywhere, is really annoying, but like so many of the worst design flaws, it can be hard to notice at first.
I know that British people swear more than American people. The copy I have is called “Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men”. My book is called “Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias…” No. Its consequences are felt by more than half of people worldwide, and most people don’t even notice it, but that’s changing, thanks in no small part to the work of one woman. It potentially affects everything we have ever built. Today’s show is about a design flaw that might be, and I’m not exaggerating here, the single-most common design flaw in human history.
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