Caroline Criado Perez

Biography:

Caroline Criado Perez is a best-selling and award-winning, broadcaster and feminist campaigner. She is published across all the major media stations, and also appears in print and broadcast as a commentator on a wide variety of topics.

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, was a book written by Caroline, which is a leading voice on equality and feministic issues in technology, health and the media. Caroline has also been fortunate to lead high-profile campaigns to publicly recognize the contribution of women in British history.

Caroline has participated in notable campaigns such as getting a female historical figure on the Bank of England banknotes; getting Twitter to introduce a “report abuse” button on tweets; getting the first statute of a woman (Millicent Fawcett) in Parliament Square.

Her book, Invisible Woman, depicts a systematic and unconscious bias behind the data and the assumptions that would construct everyday lives. She revealed a world that is built for men, from the dangerous presumption that male symptoms of heart attacks also apply to women, to the fact that pianos are built for the male-hand size to crash-test dummies being modeled on the male frame. She uses many cases to depict how male data has always been seen as the norm, therefore ignoring some of the population.

Caroline’s first book, Do It Like A Woman, was published by Portobello in 2015. Good Housekeeping selected it as their “best non-fiction” and described as a “must-read” by the Sunday Independent.  The book connects to Caroline’s most popular campaigns.

Caroline lives in London and has a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford, she also studied behavioral and feminist economics at the LSE. In 2013 she was the recipient of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year award, and was named OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honors 2015.

Alongside appearances on the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV, Caroline has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraphy, The Washington Post and The New Statesman. She has also featured in the documentary ‘Blurred Lines: The New Battle of the Sexes”