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<h3 style="text-decoration:none;">Data Feminism: A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.</h3>
<h3 style="text-decoration:none;">Data Feminism: A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.</h3>
<p class="author">by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein</p>
<p class="author">by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein</p>
<p>Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought.
<p>Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In <i>Data Feminism</i>, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought.
<p>[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-feminism <i>Data Feminism</i>] offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.</p>
<p>[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-feminism <i>Data Feminism</i>] offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.</p>
<p class="recco">Recommended by the Office of the CIO of Canada, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, a GC Data Community partner</p>
[[Image:Invisible-Women-cover.jpg|150px|Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Pérez]]
<h3 style="text-decoration:none;">Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men</h3>
<p class="author">by Caroline Criado Pérez</p>
<p>Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives.</p>
<p>Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in <i>Invisible Women</i>, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.</p>
<p class="recco">Recommended by the Office of the CIO of Canada, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, a GC Data Community partner</p>
<p class="recco">Recommended by the Office of the CIO of Canada, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, a GC Data Community partner</p>