The immediate reason for this development were two features on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme broadcast on consecutive days in October 2012, on the prevention of teenage pregnancies and breast cancer, in which no female expert was interviewed – the interviewers were also male.
In November 2012, with Catherine Smith, she founded the website Women's Room, whose goal is to collect suggestions for female professionals and to convey to journalists to increase the proportion of women in the media. In a June 2013 profile by journalist Cathy Newman in The Telegraph, Criado Perez commented: "the culture we live in is made up of little tiny sexist acts which you can just ignore but when you think of them collectively you start to see a pattern." Campaigns Female representation in the media Since then, she worked, in 2012, as an editor for an information and networking portal of the pharmaceutical industry and in 2013 was in the process of completing a master's degree in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics. She was a runner-up in the London Library Student Writing competition in 2012, receiving £1,000 and other prizes. Study of language and gender and a book by Deborah Cameron discussing gender's relationship to pronouns, led to Criado Perez becoming an active feminist.
She gained a place to study English Language and Literature at Keble College, Oxford as a mature student, graduating from Oxford University in 2012. Ĭriado Perez worked in digital marketing for some years, then studied for an English Literature A-level. Having developed a passion for opera during her teens, she wanted to become an opera singer, and various jobs subsidised her singing lessons. Ĭriado Perez spent a year at university in London, then abandoned a history course. She disliked what she described as a bullying culture there. When Criado Perez was 11, her father moved to the Netherlands and she began to board at Oundle School, a public school in Northamptonshire, England. The family lived in several countries during her childhood, including Spain, Portugal and Taiwan, as well as the UK. Early life and education īorn in Brazil, she is the daughter of Carlos Criado Perez, an Argentinian-born businessman and former CEO of the Safeway supermarket chain in the UK, and Alison, an English registered nurse who has worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres on a number of humanitarian aid missions. Her 2019 book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her most recent campaign was for a sculpture of a woman in Parliament Square the statue of Millicent Fawcett was unveiled in April 2018, as part of the centenary celebrations of the winning of women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. That campaign led to sustained harassment on the social networking website Twitter of Criado Perez and other women as a result, Twitter announced plans to improve its complaint procedures. She opposed the removal of the only woman from British banknotes (other than The Queen), leading to the Bank of England's swift announcement that the image of Jane Austen would appear on the £10 note by 2017. Her first national campaign, the Women's Room project, aimed to increase the presence of female experts in the media. Caroline Emma Criado Perez OBE (born 1984) is a British feminist author, journalist and activist.
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