17 Quotes by Caroline Criado Pérez

When we exclude half of humanity from the production of knowledge we lose out on potentially transformative insights.

The reality is that half the global population has a female body. Half the global population has to deal, on a daily basis, with the sexualized menace that is visited on that body.

.. evidence from around the world shows that political gender quotas don’t lead to the monstrous regiment of incompetent women. In fact, in line with the LSE study on workplace quotas, studies on political quotas have found that if anything, they ‘increase the competence of the political class in general’. This being the case, gender quotas are nothing more than a corrective to a hidden male bias, and it is the current system that is anti-democratic.

The male-unless-otherwise-indicated approach to research seems to have infected all sorts of ethnographic fields. Cave paintings, for example, are often of game animals and so researchers have assumed they were done by men - the hunters. But new analysis of handprints that appear alongside such paintings in cave sites in France and Spain has suggested that the majority were actually done by women.

It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves.

The real reason we exclude women is because we see the rights of 50% of the population as a minority interest.

Several studies have found that the more a field is culturally understood to require 'brilliance' or 'raw talent' to succeed - think philosophy, maths, physics, music composition, computer science - the fewer women there will be studying and working in it. We just don't see women as naturally brilliant.

You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against.

The truth is that around the world, women continue to be disadvantaged by a working culture that is based on the ideological belief that male needs are universal.