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The popular feminist phrase, 'the future is female,' may make me cringe, but this book makes it abundantly clear that the past and arguably the present, are still very much male.

This book is one of the few books I've come across whose description doesn't even scratch the surface of what's to come. I can't think of a book that I've read that was so well researched and written as this, and I'm someone who loves this type of nonfiction work, and has read every one of Malcolm Gladwell's books, written in a similar investigative style.

I think this book goes far beyond what it even needed to cover, I'm impressed that at no point did Criado Perez decide 1/3 or 1/4 of the way, that she had written enough for a book, as many books have been published on far less.

Victim mentality has always bothered me, and unfortunately, as this book points out, women are often made to feel like they're playing a victim role by simply observing a bias or injustice towards them. Or we are treated as either too sensitive or imagining our circumstance. I've been fortunate enough to have never faced what so many women on this earth face in simply attempting to escape as refugees, find a safe place to use the restroom, etc. But the pieces about being told to be 'more like a man' despite research showing that the behavioral benefits men enjoy from certain behaviors simply do not transfer when a woman tries them on for size. And times when I've been treated differently than my peers, and expected to do more work for equal recognition and praise, I was told I'm making excuses. And as this book highlights, when did we decide that women had to be more like men? Isn't that telling in itself.

Whether you agree that women are treated differently or not, I encourage anyone to read this book as I doubt you'll find something written or produced with the same level of rigor and research. So at the very least, if you read this book and decide to disagree with its findings, or maintain any stance you have against equality and supporting women, you will at least be educated in your opinion.