Mind blown. Carolina Criado Perez sets out to discover the many deficiencies in data-collecting and how they effect women’s lives, and ends up with a comprehensive explanation for why the world seems ill-suited for us to reach our maximum potential. Men are the norm, the average, the normal and women are considered too hormonal, too menstrual, too hysterical to study. “The real reason we exclude women is because we see the rights of 50% of the population as a minority interest,” she argues, and by “we” she means scientists, physicians, government officials, economists, political scientists, anyone with the power to decide what information is worth studying. As a result women cops don’t wear body armor because it doesn’t fit them, women with heart disease die because their cardiac symptoms don’t present like men’s, women’s unpaid labor in the home and volunteering is never counted as part of GDP, and rape remains rampant as a weapon of war. Criado Perez does not have answers, but she sure has effectively catalogued the results of assuming that human = male.