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This is pretty much exactly what Caroline Criado-Perez says in her recent book "Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men".
It's good to see that the awareness of this is spreading.
I don't know if this will help, but I just finished reading Invisible Women. It is an excellent read and it's absolutely appalling and infuriating to see all the places where women are just...not considered, and what the fallout of that is on a societal level. I don't think the word "feminism" occurs in the book, but it is very much a strong feminist statement with an absolute shitload of data to back it up.
Or just throw the whole boyfriend out, up to you.
Am a research scientist and woman with endometriosis, can confirm. Women are not studied in science.
Also all that stuff they tell pregnant women about how they should go off all medications/supplements? It's not because they know it will be bad for the fetus. It's because they don't know anything at all.
Absence of evidence is not evidence.
Everything in the world is designed for men, from the temperatures offices are set at, to voice recognition, to car crash test dummies, to the levels of tolerable pollutants in the water supply.
I very highly recommend the book, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez.
And then you add in the pay gap, the pink tax, women being responsible for the bulk of house/childcare, tampons taxed as luxury items, women having disproportionately smaller livers so we're more likely to be poisoned by environmental pollutants, being expected to use more personal care products loaded with said chemicals, etc. etc. etc. It's ugly out there.
The article you read was by Holly Lawford-Smith, one of the banned speakers from Feminism2020 :) her wish list must've been too scary for Massey!
Meghan Murphy also has a great podcast with the Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women (about the dangers of data bias in a world designed for men) that you might be interested to listen to.
> Caroline Criado Perez finds that everything from transportation systems, to medical devices and treatments, to tax structures, to smartphones are made for men, not women. And this is more than just inconvenient. It can be deadly. Cars built for men are more dangerous for women to drive. Not recognizing women’s heart attack symptoms mean we are more likely to die. And not understanding how certain chemicals or drugs impact the female body vs the male body is similarly dangerous. The list goes on.
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> Feminism was about equal treatment once upon a time but from what I have seen it's not just about equality. There is always something new to tackle it seems.
While I don't agree completely I can definitely understand the fear. I don't think we'll ever see "THANKS FOR THE EQUALITY" marches. It opens up a ton of questions:
For me I think that the differences are so big in so many places I'm not worried about those questions. I don't see a feasible way for such a drastic change to take place that I would ever need to be worried.
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> Right now it's the wage gap, which is inaccurately representing a disparity in wage equality. In most scenarios I bet that a woman and man who start out doing the same job make the same salary. I know my female peers I have worked with were making the same as I was in my position.
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So there's a lot of data about this that can be interpreted in all sorts of ways. From what I've seen a major contributor to the gap is Maternity Leave and parenting still being a major function of women in the household. It's the same thing that would happen if I quit my job and go hike the Appalachian trails for three years. I come back into the workforce behind the people who started the same time I did. The difference being one was for me to explore and the other is a needed task to advance the human population as a whole. I don't have a good answer to fix that, except to offer day care and other things at companies, which some of the really big swanky tech firms are doing. We'll see what data comes out of there.
On top of that most fortune 500 CEO's are men. All US Presidents are men. Most billionaires are men. With your previous point that I think is about women graduating college at bigger numbers than men that should change in the future. But it hasn't changed yet. For that change to happen we have to keep the issue on the forefront. No one should get what they don't deserve, but I have to imagine there's been at least 1 woman who would have made a great President and I doubt I've heard of her. We need to ensure those opportunities exist and women have an unbiased chance to advance to the top.
This also goes into STEM and research fields that are dominated by men.
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As for me I'm in my late 20's. Kids aren't for me for a variety of personal reasons and that lines up with my SO. So for a long term solution to a long term problem it's the easiest cheapest way to go. I'll know more how I feel about it in a few weeks.
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> As it is women have it pretty good and in some cases better than men.
You'll find a lot of feminists fighting for men too. Fighting for men's rights as parents, or for changing tables in men's bathrooms, or to increase the amount of men who become teachers in grade school or nurses.
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Some things that might interest you are r/MensLib which is a relatively open minded community that helps talk about these things. They aren't nice to trolls but are very willing to talk about things at a granular level.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is a book that is just a roller coaster of scientific studies and citations on the invisible forces in our world and how women fit in it. Whether you agree with every point or how they interpreted each individual stat it's a monumental resource and I learned a lot.