Vital Voices Podcast

Voices of Resilience: The Danger of Biased Data with Emily Courey Pryor

Episode Summary

"Women are half the population but are essentially not counted." Data2X's Emily Courey Pryor explained how bias in data trickles down to widen economic and opportunity gaps through unequal policies.

Episode Notes

In this conversation, Data2X's Emily Courey Pryor outlines the crucial points as to why gender data matters in building a more equal world. Biased data leads to biased policies, which widen economic and opportunity gaps and leave women behind when pushing for progress. From the way data is gathered to how questions are structured to how it's analyzed, gender bias can creep in throughout the data collection process - and deliver negative results. Tune in for an important conversation.

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Host: Alyse Nelson. 

Executive Producer: Lizzie Kubo Kirschenbaum. 

Editor: Christi Owiye.

Music: Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod. 

Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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