Invisible Women: stuck in the queue for the ladies

take it up with the data, dads

Good morning GFPs! Thank you for your lovely comments about the interview with the wonderful Tracy King, I hope some of you were inspired to check out her book! We did get a question about who on earth Lee Child is, reminding me many of my readers are not British; I have to say I thought the author of the Jack Reacher books transcended borders! But in any case, that is who he is.

And now for a gif I know Tracy will appreciate…

I made that all by myself! Not bad for a “geriatric millennial”. Even if it did take me, um…some time.

In other news, question for GFPs: would any of you prefer to listen to these newsletters instead of reading them? It’s a function Substack offers and I’m not sure whether it’s worth recording a voice version or not. So, a poll! Please vote accordingly and I shall take your views under advisement.

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Gender data gap of the week

So we all know that commuting travel affects our well-being. There have been loads of studies on the topic and the general consensus is that travel for work sucks. I paraphrase. But until now no one has thought to do a quantitative analysis of how travel for UNPAID care labour affects our wellbeing. I know, shocker, right? I mean we only design our entire public transport system around commuters (see Invisible Women pp.29-39), we obviously care deeply - DEEPLY — about the wellbeing of the people who do all the unpaid care work that enables all the paid work to happen.