Invisible Women

Invisible Women,

I’ve been editing the Radar section since July 2019, finding exhibitions, events, festivals and so on to fill your diaries and help you discover great science outside the pages of BBC Science Focus. So, it is fortuitous that Radar should be replaced by BookSmart this month, when many of us are self-isolating or social distancing because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Reading is restful. It has been shown to help us get to sleep, lower our blood pressure and make us feel less stressed. Even the least anxious among us could surely benefit from relaxing with a good book?

The first book we’ll be reading won the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2019. It is also a Sunday Times

bestseller and was winner of the Reader’s Choice Books Are My Bag

Awards 2019. And those are just a few of its accolades.

In the reader lives a life where the office thermostat is always set too cold, where you’re likely to leave a doctor’s appointment with a prescription for a drug completely wrong for your body, and where everything has been designed slightly bigger than one’s hand can comfortably hold.

Except, for half of all readers, they’re already living that life. We (I mean, women) might not even realise the extent to which the world we’re living in has been biased against us, but I assure you, everyone will feel more enraged and empowered after reading the stories of injustice in Invisible Women. I’m looking forward to discussing it with you all.

Amy Barrett, BBC Science Focus editorial assistant