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FINALLY - after spending 3 hours on it, I am ready to post my review.

WOW.
i have so much to say about invisible women, i hardly know where to start! but this one will be short (compared to the many paragraphs i drafted in my notes).

this book should be mandatory reading for all men. and i don’t mean just a casual read—i mean thorough reading, thinking, and analyzing, with a genuine effort to view the world through a woman’s perspective.
this book was a huge eye-opener! although I love reading about women’s experiences, feminism, and female writers, this one ‘screamed�� louder than most books on the subject. and, of course, it should—it’s based on actual data. but the evidence presented here? astonishing!

i’ve always known that we live in a male-dominated world, society, and even family structure. i remember as a child watching a tv show with my brother—a show i loved but he found “meh.�� and every time dinner fell during the show, i was expected to clean up afterward—not only for myself but for him too. even at age six, that felt so unfair. every time someone would say, “because you’re a girl,�� i couldn’t wrap my head around it, i still can’t. it makes me angry. that difference, based solely on sex, always tips in favor of men. it’s always been that way.

we live in a man’s world—songs, movies, politicians, husbands, brothers, fathers, workplaces, and even police officers remind us of that. Everything is created by men, for men, yet labeled as being “for everyone.�� when a woman speaks up, it’s “yapping��; she’s unworthy of being heard. But when a man speaks—educated or not, capable or not—he’s the authority. always.

knowing this is one thing. reading real data about it is another. invisible women delivered these truths systematically, showing all the angles i hadn’t fully considered, even though i thought i was paying enough attention. the potential solutions Carolina C Perez suggests, based on data, are so sensible and cost-effective. if only women were included, if only our voices weren’t underestimated, if only we stopped being invisible. realizing just how deep this gender gap runs was both enlightening and frustrating.

why is it this way? why do men, who go home to relax after work, get paid more for the same job that pays women less—women who often go home to do even more unpaid labor? even in partnerships that try to split responsibilities 50/50, the daily ‘exposure�� to discrimination drags that balance down,to more like 20/80. and i’m not even talking about the real violence and crimes women face. [and do not come back home].

Perez has done an incredible job with this book. the writing, the data, the carefully chosen examples—everything is perfectly on point. i’ll definitely reread it because it’s packed with so much information that, even with full attention, i’m sure i missed things.

it’s hard to say this book is “enjoyable�� when the facts are so sobering(!). but in a way, it left me feeling empowered. it’s made me more conscious and confident about these issues. i feel like, yes, maybe everything does start with something as small as cleaning the table—equally.

i hope everyone, especially men, reads this book. we’re still struggling for inclusion in a world designed for men. this is a call for awareness, equality, ‘normality�� and inclusion��

it is 10000% true that even though you think that you are a feminist and read a lot on the subject, after reading this book you feel soo stupified, like I had no idea about this ‘screaming data�� and hooow I never had the slightest idea about all these details?

After reading this book nothing is the same. I see the gaps, I see the man default systematic approach everywhere now. And i can not un-see it.