Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez Podcast
1) 1. Morally Indefensible PPE
When the pandemic hit, Caroline Criado Perez was inundated with messages from female healthcare workers telling her that their PPE – things like masks and goggles – didn’t fit. In this first episode o...Show More
2) 2.6 The contraceptive headache
If you ask any woman whether she’s happy with her contraception, chances are she’ll say no - but that she’s settled for the best of a bad bunch. In this episode, Caroline asks why our options are stuc...Show More
3) 2.5 Waiting for the ladies
Caroline is sent photos of women’s toilet queues on an almost daily basis, since writing in her book Invisible Women about how women’s queues are always longer than the men’s. In this episode, she inv...Show More
4) 2.4 The day the women went on strike
In October 1975, the women of Iceland took a 'day off', leading to national chaos. It highlighted the importance of women’s roles in the economy, of which unpaid care work - cooking, cleaning, caring ...Show More
5) 2.3 The concussed female brain
After learning shocking data about concussions in women's rugby, Caroline takes a closer look, and discovers an even more widespread and worrying issue. Domestic violence affects one in three women wo...Show More
6) 2.2 Are pianos sexist?
The standard piano keyboard is too big for 87% of women and 25% of men, limiting the range of pieces they can play. But how did pianos end up this size? Is it time we came up with an alternative? The ...Show More
7) A statement from Visible Women
We’re taking a short break from publishing Visible Women in line with national mourning for the death of Queen Elizabeth II. We’ll be back soon with more episodes. In the meantime, if you’d ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8) 2.1 Murderous menstrual blood
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that periods are terrifying. Well, men have certainly seemed to think so. All the way back to Roman times, the male chroniclers of the human condition ha...Show More
9) Introducing Season 2: Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
How do we fix a world designed for men? In this ambitious second season, Caroline will investigate data gaps in everything from endometriosis to the economy, concussions to contraception -- and she’ll...Show More
10) 6. Privacy vs the gender data gap
Caroline has spent over a decade calling for more data to be collected on women -- but in this episode the Visible Women team investigates: what happens when that data gets used against us? For many o...Show More