Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

by Angela Saini

All it would have taken in those early days of human evolutionary history was a few good grandmothers.

“By throwing men under the bus, it seemed to be a radical new idea and people clung to that,”

the way the Western medical profession has treated menopausal women has made them believe that menopause has more symptoms than it really does.

“When men understand that the best way to solve their own problem is to help women solve those that men have created for women, they will have taken one of the first significant steps toward its solution. . . . The truth will make men free as well as women.”

I didn’t want to show that one sex is inferior and the other superior (I don’t believe that’s a distinction anyone can even reasonably make).

We’ve entered the epoch that scientists call the “anthropocene,” in which humans are recognized to have had a profound impact on global ecosystems.