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This is one of these books that change the way you see society. I finished it a month ago and I still have flashbacks of some parts of it whenever I witness what he pointed out as symptoms of a meritocratic society. I see it everywhere now.
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ao contrário do que se julga, não são tanto as respostas que me importam, senhor primeiro-ministro, mas as perguntas, obviamente refiro-me às nossas, observe como elas costumam ter, ao mesmo tempo, um objectivo à vista e uma intenção que
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“The fact is that worth is a matter of opinion, and opinion is informed by culture. And if that culture is as male-biased as ours is, it can’t help but be biased against women. By default.”
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“Don't you know, If you don't step outside yourself, you'll never discover who you are”
― The Tale of the Unknown Island
― The Tale of the Unknown Island
“There is no such thing as a woman who doesn't work. There is only a woman who isn't paid for her work.”
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“An analysis of 248 performance reviews collected from a variety of US-based tech companies found that women receive negative personality criticism that men simply don’t.7 Women are told to watch their tone, to step back. They are called bossy, abrasive, strident, aggressive, emotional and irrational. Out of all these words, only aggressive appeared in men’s reviews at all – ‘twice with an exhortation to be more of it’.”
― Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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