Invisible Women

Invisible Women talks about the flaws in our societal system, which was built on the premise that men should rule and conquer the world while women should stay at home, which is why we’re still seeing gender gaps in the personal, professional, and day-to-day lives of women.

Gender biases are responsible for the lack of opportunities available to women and girls and their underrepresentation in leadership positions. However, their origin is still under debate, as research keeps on finding data to support that this problem has deeper roots than we thought.

History often portrayed men in leadership positions and women doing household chores. Philosophers like Aristotle argued that men are the main gender and the prototype of a human. Yet, biology classes taught in schools didn’t teach the existence of the ovaries till the seventeenth century.

All these facts and many others translate into the gender inequality we face today. Cities function on an infrastructure that serves long commuters, drivers, and people working full-time jobs. Yet, while many women do so, there’s still a part that didn’t get this far in their careers. We do not have priority parking for pregnant women, for example.

Public bathrooms are also created unevenly, hence the long lines for women. Therefore, all the arrows point toward the same conclusion. We’re living in a world designed for men, where women are having difficulty bettering their lives.

Women are born and bred into a world unfit for them in a society built for men from top to bottom, from governmental directives to infrastructure, from laws and professional hierarchical schemes that favor men.

Unfortunately, many of these issues reflect a woman’s physical and emotional health. For example, cars test safety measures on males. Though some companies also choose to test on women models, it’s not a requirement.

However, studies show that women are more likely to be severely injured in car accidents than men. Another similar aspect can be noticed regarding the optimum temperature in offices where air conditioners were set in the 60s by analyzing an average 40-year-old male.

These examples go further and further as every industry has evolved on the premise that men are the primary consumers. Historical data shows that men were the main models and standards.

This means everything we know today is linked to a man’s body and mind without accounting for a woman’s needs. For this reason, women find it that much harder to climb the social ladder and fulfill their professional lives as they want to.

Although women and men make up roughly half of the population in politics, this gender balance does not translate to equal representation. Women hold only about 20% of all seats in national legislatures…