The proof we STILL live in a man's world: Phones too big for our palms, chilly offices, cars designed for male drivers (companies, examples)

[Azureth]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ans-world.html

Have you ever struggled to reach a high bookshelf? Shivered in a freezing office in July? Or tried — unsuccessfully — to use voice recognition technology?

All these daily irritations are examples of what happens when women have to use products, software and spaces that have been designed by men, for men. They fail to take into account women’s typically smaller size and different needs.

This gender data gap is not generally malicious or even deliberate. But it can be deadly — like crashing in a car whose safety measures don’t account for the height and weight of women’s bodies. This is what I mean when I say women are ‘invisible’. We are living in a world made for men, itself a product of a way of thinking that has been around for millennia — and which is, therefore, a kind of not thinking.

I don't get this, are companies really supposed to spend millions in R&D and millions more just to make seperate male and female versions of different phones, cars, bookshelfs etc.?

[T-310]

So now we have to cater to the vertically challenged?

What nonsense.

[ClaraC]

I have no trouble with voice recognition technology; it always understands me, and my phone understands when it's my voice.

Chilly public spaces often are demanded by women in their late 40's, early 50's.

I will say this. Technology is created by the young, for the young.

For this reason, if you try to expand the map on your iPhone, the streets themselves get bigger and bigger, but the street names remain the same small font. Because young people have no trouble seeing the small letters, where older people are trying to expand the map to read the words but they never get bigger.

So I ask you. How big does the designer of that software think the streets need to be? Because yeah, I think we all get it. That line is a street. But what's the name of it?

[No_Recess]

Have you ever shared a single bathroom with six sisters and managed to grow up without your bladder exploding?

Yes, I have...barely.

[Jowel]

Whenever I see how tight airplane seats are I think those must been designed by women for women.

Or what about those little keys on phones and laptops? Those are harder for a man with larger hands to operate.

I think whoever wrote the article quoted by the OP needs to look at the world around them a little more closely before coming to those conclusions.

[JimRom]

Just told my wife that her desire to keep the thermostat at 70 degrees is the result of unintententional discrimination. I'll let you know her opinion on the subject when she finally stops laughing. It may be a while.

[Absolom]

Are they assuming gender??

[Tokinouta]

The worst is the medicine tested on males. It can get pretty dangerous. They don't do many tests on females because of pregnancy and menstrual cycles so most medicine is tested on males. Medicine metabolizes different for women than men. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...scular-disease

[bus man]

Originally Posted by ClaraC

I have no trouble with voice recognition technology; it always understands me, and my phone understands when it's my voice.

Chilly public spaces often are demanded by women in their late 40's, early 50's.

I will say this. Technology is created by the young, for the young.

For this reason, if you try to expand the map on your iPhone, the streets themselves get bigger and bigger, but the street names remain the same small font. Because young people have no trouble seeing the small letters, where older people are trying to expand the map to read the words but they never get bigger.

So I ask you. How big does the designer of that software think the streets need to be? Because yeah, I think we all get it. That line is a street. But what's the name of it?

Yes, yes, a thousand times YES!!

[bus man]

But it can be deadly — like crashing in a car whose safety measures don’t account for the height and weight of women’s bodies.

So, I guess this means that short men and tall women don't drive cars?