Bartleby: It's a man's world

摘要

PREGNANT WOMEN have limited mobility. That is obvious to anyone who has had a baby, but didn't occur to the founders of Google when they designed their car park. When Sheryl Sandberg, then head of online sales, became pregnant in 2004, she made a simple request: parking spaces for expectant women as close to the building entrance as possible. That is just one example of how many aspects of the workplace lack the female perspective. In her brilliant book "Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias In A World Designed For Men", Caroline Criado Perez shows how widespread these subtle biases can be.