Caroline Criado-Perez

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Caroline Criado-Perez 2019 at the Open Data Institute Summit 2019 . Author: Paul Clarke

Caroline Criado-Perez (born June 1984 in Brazil ) is a British journalist , author , feminist , activist and holder of the British Order of Knights OBE . She became known as the co-founder of The Woman's Room website . In 2013 she launched a successful campaign against the Bank of England to remove women from banknotes. This led to persistent threats of violence against her on social media . Your most recent publications deal with the gender data gap , i.e. the distortions in scientific data collection, the knowledge gaps of which cause and further exacerbate the continuous and systematic discrimination of women.

Live and act

Due to her Argentine father's work, Criado-Perez spent her childhood in Spain , Portugal , Taiwan , Great Britain and the Netherlands and attended a public school from the age of 11 . She left school at the age of 18 and wanted to be an opera singer . In order to finance her training, she worked in digital marketing , but after a few years decided not to pursue this career aspiration and studied English literature for her A-level in the evenings . She then studied at Keble College of the University of Oxford English and English literature and reached its conclusion at the age of 25 years. At the 2012 London Library Student Writing Prize she was awarded one of the £ 1,000 second prizes (“runner-up”) . Since then she has been working as an editor for an information and networking portal for the pharmaceutical industry and is aiming for a Master's in Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science .

The Woman's Room website

In November 2012, Criado-Perez co-founded the website The Woman's Room , the aim of which is to collect suggestions for female professionals and to convey them to journalists in order to increase the proportion of women experts in the media. The reason for this was the fact that the BBC only invited men as experts on its Radio 4 program for two consecutive days on the topics of teenage pregnancy prevention and breast cancer , which culminated in absurd questions such as: “If you were a woman, you would then take part in a screening program without hesitation? "

Campaign against the Bank of England

In a further campaign in 2013, she called on the Bank of England to reverse its decision, with the change from Elizabeth Fry to Winston Churchill, to only show men on the back of the banknotes on the five-pound note from April 2016, and historically not to remove significant women. After this appeal had 35,000 supporters, Mark Carney , President of the Bank of England from July 2013 to March 2020, announced that the £ 10 note would be designed with the image of Jane Austen from 2017 .

Threats of violence on online media

The successful campaign against the abolition of images of women on banknotes led to numerous threats against Criado-Perez on online media such as Twitter , including announcements of rape . A 21-year-old man was arrested and another man was arrested two days later. Because Twitter did not prevent this in time and such postings were possible for over 12 hours, a boycott of the microblogging service was called until a possibility to report such abuse was set up for all operating systems and platforms. A corresponding online petition found 15,000 supporters within a day. The British Twitter boss Tony Wang then announced that they were looking into introducing a button to report such abuse. Subsequent threats to death and violence were also issued and bomb attacks were announced, including against Member of Parliament Stella Creasy and journalists India Knight and Laurie Penny.

In January 2014, a man and a woman who threatened Criado-Perez on Twitter were sentenced to several weeks' imprisonment and £ 800 in  damages each.

Awards

Fonts

  • 2015: Do It Like a Woman. Portobello Books, London, ISBN 978-1-84627-579-1 (English).
  • 2019: Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. London, ISBN 978-1-78470-628-9
    • German translation: Invisible women: How a world dominated by data ignores half the population. btb, Munich February 10, 2020, from the English by Stephanie Singh, ISBN 978-3-442-71887-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simon Hattenstone: Interview Caroline Criado-Perez: 'Twitter has enabled people to behave in a way they wouldn't face to face'. In: The Guardian . August 4, 2013, accessed September 26, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d Winner entry: The London Library Student Prize 2012. In: The London Library Magazine. No. 3, 2012, p. 21/22, here p. 22 (English; PDF: 160 kB, 2 pages on londonlibrarystudentprize.com ( memento of October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )).
  3. ↑ a b Column: Caroline Criado-Perez: ePharma Editor at eyeforpharma. In: eyeforpharma.com. Article overview, accessed on September 26, 2019 (English).
  4. ^ A b Brogan Driscoll: The Women's Room Co-Founder, Caroline Criado-Perez: On Female Experts, Feminism And Media. In: HuffingtonPost.co.uk . June 21, 2013, accessed September 26, 2019.
  5. ↑ London Library Student Prize: 2012 Winner announced! ( Memento from June 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: londonlibrarystudentprize.com. March 30, 2012, accessed September 26, 2019.
  6. ↑ London Library Student Prize - Press release: The London Library Student Prize 2012 - Winner Announced! March 30, 2012 (English; DOCx file: 70 kB, 3 pages on londonlibrarystudentprize.com ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )).
  7. ↑ Caroline Criado-Perez, interviewed by Jane C. Woods: Caroline Criado-Perez (WeekWoman) - Inspirational Woman. In: ChangingPeople.co.uk. February 11, 2013, accessed September 26, 2019.
  8. ↑ a b Introducing yourself: About Us. In: TheWomensRoom.co.uk. 2018, accessed on September 26, 2019.
  9. ^ Georg Szalai: UK Web Site to Help BBC Get More Female Experts on Air. In: The Hollywood Reporter . November 5, 2012, accessed September 26, 2019.
  10. ↑ Caroline Criado-Perez: Female experts for BBC interviews wanted: Your suggestions please. In: The Guardian . November 5, 2012, accessed September 26, 2019.
  11. ↑ Kevin Peachey: Sir Winston Churchill to feature on new banknote. In: BBC News . April 26, 2013, accessed September 26, 2019.
  12. ↑ Caroline Criado-Perez: The women's blog - Women on bank notes: is the Bank of England finally listening? In: The Guardian. July 4, 2013, accessed September 26, 2019.
  13. ^ Mark Carney to review female representation on bank note. In: BBC News. July 3, 2013, accessed July 28, 2013.
  14. ↑ Katie Allen, Heather Stewart: Jane Austen to appear on £ 10 note , The Guardian, July 24, 2013, accessed July 28, 2013.
  15. ↑ Jane Austen to be face of the Bank of England £ 10 note. In: BBC News. July 24, 2013, accessed July 28, 2013.
  16. ↑ Vanessa Thorpe: What now for Britain's new-wave feminists - after page 3 and £ 10 notes? , The Guardian, July 27, 2013, accessed July 28, 2013.
  17. ↑ Message: Caroline Criado-Perez Twitter abuse case leads to arrest. In: BBC News. July 28, 2013, accessed July 29, 2013.
  18. ↑ Message: Great Britain: Police arrest man after threats on Twitter. In: Spiegel Online . July 29, 2013, accessed July 30, 2013.
  19. ↑ Message: Man Arrested In Twitter Abuse Campaign Probe. In: HuffingtonPost.co.uk . July 30, 2013, accessed August 1, 2013.
  20. ↑ Laura Smith-Spark: Calls for action as female journalists get bomb threats on Twitter. cnn.com on August 1, 2013, accessed August 1, 2013.
  21. ↑ Editorial message: Sexism: Trolls pounce on the new £ 10 banknote. In: derStandard.at . July 28, 2013, accessed September 26, 2019.
  22. ↑ Jessica Elgot: Twitter Rape Abuse Of Caroline Criado-Perez Leads To Boycott Threat. In: HuffingtonPost.co.uk . July 27, 2013, accessed July 28, 2013.
  23. ↑ Alex Wellman: Woman who campaigned for Jane Austen to become face of £ 10 note bombarded with rape threats , Daily Mirror, July 27, 2013, accessed July 28, 2013.
  24. ↑ Lena Jakat: How ten pounds stir up hatred on Twitter. In: Süddeutsche.de . July 28, 2013. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
  25. ^ Renewed threats of violence against women on Twitter. In: derStandard.at . August 6, 2013.
  26. ↑ Ben Quinn: Twitter bomb threats made against more women in public eye. In: The Guardian . August 5, 2013, accessed September 26, 2019.
  27. ↑ Message: Hate tweets against activist: British sentenced to prison terms. In: Süddeutsche.de . January 26, 2014, accessed September 26, 2019.
  28. ↑ Prime Minister's Recommendations For The Birthday Honors List 2015. UK Government, accessed February 12, 2020 (UK English).
  29. ↑ Message: Book about gender gap wins prestigious science award. In: ORF.at . September 24, 2019, accessed September 26, 2019.
  30. ↑ 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. Royal Society, accessed November 4, 2019 (UK English).
personal data
SURNAME Criado-Perez, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Brazil