La madre del ingenio

Why did it take five millennia to add wheels to a suitcase? How did bras get us to the moon? And what would the world be like if we listened to women? Bestselling author Katrine Marçal shows us the surprising ways in which our deeply entrenched ideas about gender hold us back. Extraordinary inventions and innovative ideas are ignored every day in a world that continues to serve men. But it does not have to be like that. Since the dawn of time, women have played a key role in society and have offered ingenious solutions to some of the most vexing problems. Recently, they have been the ones who have transformed the way we buy online, revolutionized the lives of people with functional diversity and made climate change a political priority. Despite these successes, we still have a hard time finding and funding breakthrough ideas that could change the future of the planet, and we spend only three percent of venture capital on projects founded by women. Our prejudices about men and women continue to determine our economic decisions. For a long time, we have underestimated the consequences of machismo and the way in which it has held back economic and social development. Katrine Marçal's forceful critique makes things clear and shows us how, in times of crisis, the creativity and intelligence of women is precisely what can save us.