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1. Eight ways the world is not designed for women

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47725946

Eight ways the world is not designed for women

Training mannequins are getting an update: breasts - two years after a study found women are less likely than men to receive CPR in public. They are the latest talking point in conversations about how women navigate a world designed in some ways for men.

Earlier this year, a last-minute spacesuit switch saw the cancellation of Nasa's first all-female space walk, sparking bigger conversations about gender biased design.
Caroline Criado Perez, a journalist and the author of Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, told the BBC she was totally unsurprised by the spacesuit debacle.

"This is just what happens over and over when it comes to what we design," she says. "We are so used to thinking of men as the default and women as the sort of niche - a variety of man."

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