As an ongoing feature, staff members at the Des Moines Public Library will recommend a business-related book to add to your reading list. Find this and more books like it at any of the Des Moines Public Library’s six locations and online at dmpl.org. And find information on how to get a FREE library card and all its benefits at dmpl.org/get-carded.

Des Moines Public Library business book pick: “Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men” by Caroline Criado Perez. 

Why you should read it: From economics to health care to education, data remains fundamental to the modern world. But most data also fails to take gender into account, and thus bias and discrimination are often baked into the systems we live and work in. In her international bestseller, celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the root causes of gender inequity and uses the book as a call for change.