"We're used to the idea that women aren't represented in our culture and media and politics and films. The idea that this extended to what was sold as objective - the idea of medicine and science, that they were also underrepresenting women - was just mind-blowing to me."
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On how women are ignored in the medical world in "Caroline Criado-Perez On Data Bias And 'Invisible Women'" NPR (17 March 2019)
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