Statistics on Women and Gender : Books

Because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. This books investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research, diving into women's lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more.

This book demonstrates how women's history has consistently been hidden and distorted by 200 years of official government statistics. It provides new ways of thinking about the history of women in the United States, and examines the systems used to gather and publish federal statistics, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and biases.

Published 1885 - Report of a special committee of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Annie G. Howes, Chairman, together with statistical tables collated by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor

In this completely revised and updated fourth edition of her groundbreaking atlas, Joni Seager provides comprehensive and accessible analysis of up-to-the-minute global data on the key issues facing women today: equality, motherhood, feminism, the culture of beauty, women at work, women in the global economy, changing households, domestic violence, lesbian rights, women in government, and more.