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PLEASE tell me you're all reading Invisible Women?!

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WyeWoman · 22/01/2020 17:56

I keep speaking to people about this amazing book by Caroline Criado Perez called Invisible Women! It is soooo bloody amazing!!
Link here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1113605/invisible-women/9781784741723.html

I need to discuss this with people. This woman is brilliant.

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MrsSnippyPants · 22/01/2020 18:42

Yes we are, where have you been? Grin
As other posters have said I have to ration my reading to short bursts as it gives me the rage otherwise.
My poor DH gets nervous whenever I pick it up because within five minutes I will be saying "Listen to this, you won't believe this!" and variations thereof.

OhHolyJesus · 22/01/2020 18:42

Can I just say stealth that you called it the sex pay gap, I use the same language.

I might have to pause on Emma and go back to Caroline, thanks for the nudge OP!

stealthLangnutkin · 22/01/2020 18:39

I loved it, but at the same time I felt really upset that women are still being ignored, because I remember some of the basic ideas in the book were already being discussed in the 1980's. Back when universities still had Women's Studies departments and research was being done to show how women and girls were felt to be "dominating the discussion" if they spoke more than a third of the time in a mixed group.

It's like the sex pay gap, the law was changed decades ago, but so little progress has been made that it'll take another 200 years to close the gap at the current rate of change.

TwistedEyeOfHorus · 22/01/2020 18:29

I read it before Christmas, but I've talked my bookclub into reading it this year. With Handmaid's Tale in March as well, we should be raving feminists by June.

MangoesAreMyFavourite · 22/01/2020 18:27

I am in chapter two. Going much slower than I would like. Will be great to discuss here

Dorent · 22/01/2020 18:20

I can only read a chapter at a time, and let it digest, as I find it so disheartening- brilliant much needed book though!

Lumene · 22/01/2020 18:18

Yes!

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WyeWoman · 22/01/2020 18:03

Im only only chapter two.
I love how well researched it is. It's study upon study upon evidence upon study knitted beautifully together with insightful and even funny comments. It's sort of gratifying and wonderful but also shocking and firey!

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JustaScratch · 22/01/2020 18:02

I'm reading it - almost half way through. Fascinating and very intelligently put together.

OhHolyJesus · 22/01/2020 17:58

I had to return the library copy and have a copy for Christmas but I'm behind in my reading as I'm on About Bloody a Time by Emma Barnett.

How far in are you?

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