Celebrate International Women’s Day with books! Embrace equality and learn about different cultures and experiences from around the world with stories written by female authors.
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March 8 is International Women’s Day. The theme for 2022 is “Break the Bias.” Since it can sometimes be hard to find books with strong female characters, I decide to make that the focus of my blog post today. I have a number of books and series with female characters.
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books, to tell the truth) is that of personal power. What does Reg (or another character) do when faced with an insurmountable obstacle? In Reg’s case, being a paranormal setting, it may be something as big as a magical being intent on taking over the world. That’s a pretty big obstacle. But in other series, it may also be Chloe’s struggle with homelessness and a traumatic history. Or Renata’s ongoing battle with mito and paranoid schizophrenia.
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March 8 is International Women’s Day. So what’s that all about? I have previously written about International Women’s Day, and you can find that blog post here.
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I just finished reading Whisper Network by Chandler Baker. It is a Grisham-like legal suspense book about women in society, the workforce, and law in particular. If you are the type who does not like a book with an agenda, this one is not for you, because it is very clearly intended to address sexual abuse in the workplace and the means used to keep victim’s complaints from ever seeing the light of day.
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I’ve just started reading Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez. As you might guess by the title, this one is not a thriller! But I am finding it very interesting. Not as a “feminist” book, but as a book about data, the way the world has been engineered, how what data we gather affects the results, and how to become more aware of these built-in biases. It is a fascinating subject.
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