One of the most important things to say about the gender data gap is that it is not generally malicious, or even deliberate. Quite the opposite. It is simply the product of a way of thinking that has been around for millennia and is therefore a kind of not thinking. A double not thinking, even: men go without saying, and women don39;t get said at all... This is not a new observation. Simone de Beauvoir made it most famously when in 1949 she wrote, 39;humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself, but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being. [...] He is the Subject, he is the Absolute - she is the Other.39; What is new is the context in which women continue to be 39;the Other39;. ... failing to include the perspective of women is a huge driver of an unintended male ...