Community members will be able to connect to a network of power players within the industry who are paving the way helping women to strengthen their leadership and progress their careers. Her address will coincide with the launch of Capacity's own emPOWERED Network, a new community for women in tech and telecoms, with its own dedicated magazine. During which she will share her inspirational story and how she came about writing one of the most talked about books exposing the truth behind data and gender bias. She has also been an outspoken advocate for greater representation of women in the media, particularly female experts and thought-leaders on topical issues.Ĭriado-Perez will join us on Tuesday 17 October as keynote guest speaker at the Women in Telecoms & Tech Networking Breakfast, sponsored by Verizon Partner Solutions. The petition garnered 74,000 signatures and by 2017 the first statue of a woman - Millicent Fawcett - was erected in Parliament Square. In 2016, she launched a campaign for a statue of a suffragette to be erected in Parliament Square, London, after noticing that there was an absence of women present. In 2013, following the aforementioned Bank of England campaign, Criado-Perez led another campaign to encourage Twitter to review its 'inadequate' abuse reporting procedures, leading it to introduce a “report abuse” button on all Tweets. A campaign that subsequently saw Jane Austen replace Winston Churchill, who had previously replaced Elizabeth Fry on the £10 note. Her most notable work includes the campaign she spearheaded to have a female historical figure on Bank of England £10 notes. “I was really aware this book was going to ruffle feathers and I was very worried about how it would be received by people who might feel defensive about it, that I wasn’t going to be able to do justice to this incredibly important topic and that I would make a mess of it and it wouldn’t have the impact I knew it had to have.Criado-Perez is a noted feminist, author, and proponent for gender equality, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2015 for her work in equality and diversity, particularly in the media. Even though I knew there was this bias in medical science, I thought that hearing the evidence, they would react in a ‘We need to fix this’ kind of way rather than a ‘What is this stupid woman talking about?’ kind of way,” she said. As someone who doesn’t have a science background, I’ve always looked up to scientists as objective and rational. She received an angry response from some of the male doctors present. When she began writing, she said, she gave a talk at the launch of the women’s health all-party parliamentary group, during which she said “very innocuous things that are very well-known, like how women are more likely to be misdiagnosed with a heart attack, how female animals are not being included in studies, how women are having adverse drug reactions”. But also it was very challenging because it was a book about the whole world and everything in it, and I had to work out how to synthesise that into something manageable.” It really tested my mental strength to its limits, partly because it was a really emotional book to write because of the impact this is having on women’s lives and how angry and upsetting it was to keep coming across this gap in the data. “Obviously it’s a huge honour, but mainly because it has the official endorsement of scientists and so it can’t be dismissed now, and that’s so important,” she said. The author and feminist campaigner who successfully pushed for Jane Austen to be featured on the UK’s £10 note, called her £25,000 win on Monday night a huge relief.
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