![]() ![]() It took until 2011 for carmakers in the US to start using crash test dummies based on the typical female body (although this does beg the question of whether there is such a thing as a “typical” female body, and whose body carmakers consider “typical”). One in three women in the world lack access to safe toilets. Women in the UK, Criado Perez notes, are 53% more stressed at work than men. The book offers endless nuggets to chew on. ![]() Seeing imbalance in percentage terms gives the process of understanding and combating it an important dimension. But it’s nevertheless useful and sobering to have it listed in this way, to have numbers to quantify our pain and misery. We already know that we’re paid less, that we do far more unpaid labour at home, that the queues for our loos are longer, that we are the disproportionate victims of domestic violence. ![]() These aren’t facts that will shock all women. ![]()
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