That is promising considering:
“UK research suggests that women are 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed following a heart attack,5 not only because doctors fail to recognise signs, formerly attributed as ‘atypical,’ but also that biomarkers are geared towards men, for example, the normal diagnostic threshold of troponin may be too high for women.6 Even medical textbooks have a male default bias,7 and medical curricula have been found lacking in gender-related issues”
For more info on data bias in healthcare and more
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed For Men by Caroline Criado Perez
“On average, a woman is murdered every eight days in the Netherlands. In four out of five cases, it is femicide: the perpetrator is often a (former) partner, parent or other family member. Sometimes it is also about the deliberate killing of someone simply because she is a woman.”
Violence against women!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55f5KxWNi7A
got it too a while ago but didn’t start reading it yet :) but this text is also good to discuss indeed!
Just got his book! Maybe we can discuss it in one of the next reading group meetings!
Changing the Migration Narrative: On the Power of Discourse, Propaganda and Truth Distortion
the lack of data is scary….
Reference book for more awareness on gender based violence and their usual perpetrators…
The typology of the perpetrators…
This is soo creepy…
That is promising considering: “UK research suggests that women are 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed following a heart attack,5 not only because doctors fail to recognise signs, formerly attributed as ‘atypical,’ but also that biomarkers are geared towards men, for example, the normal diagnostic threshold of troponin may be too high for women.6 Even medical textbooks have a male default bias,7 and medical curricula have been found lacking in gender-related issues” For more info on data bias in healthcare and more Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed For Men by Caroline Criado Perez
10 years in prison for man who killed his wife in Bovenkarspel
On riots in Britain…
Number of serious accidents involving fat bikes has increased significantly
“On average, a woman is murdered every eight days in the Netherlands. In four out of five cases, it is femicide: the perpetrator is often a (former) partner, parent or other family member. Sometimes it is also about the deliberate killing of someone simply because she is a woman.”