Laura Dowling

Yeah.

Crash test dummies, for instance, are built for your average sized male, whatever that might be.

So as a result, women will experience more injuries in a car crash because the crash test dummies...

Do not allow for the female body.

So it is actually really interesting from... It takes in the entire life of a woman and a man.

It just shows you how, because a world is built for a man, then women's... The data for women is lacking, even down to workforce and even down to, I suppose...

in a company where overtime is considered to be brilliant and, you know, people will get paid if they are working overtime or if they're hitting their deadlines because they're working overtime, but it's not taking into account the fact that women have to leave work or women want to leave work at five because they have to get home to mind the kids or to make a dinner.

So the gender pay gap then as well.

But it isn't just that.

It just shows you how every part of society is affected, even in disaster, catastrophic events and disaster planning.

So a lot of the officials will be male that are looking after, say, the refugee camps and that.

Yes.

It doesn't allow for them to be able to go and talk about that to a female because it's all male officials.

So it's across the board everywhere from your rich people with really good jobs to people that are in disaster zones and unable to voice what's happening to them as a result of the fact that everything is kind of built around them.

The male model.

The male model.

And it's because how can, if women aren't involved in the planning, how can men understand that they have to allow for women?

Because it's, you know, and if you have 10 men at the board table, then they're going to want to employ someone that's just like them on the board table, not a woman that, it's about the way it affects everything in the world.

And it's just a really interesting read.

Thank you so much.