Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in a World Built for Men

Katrine Marçal

We live in a world shaped by gender. Virtually every aspect of our existence - from the cars we drive to the luggage we carry, to the defining ideas of our past, present, and future - is affected by our deeply held beliefs about the role of men and women within society. It's the reason why, every day, innovative ideas and extraordinary inventions are ignored by investors ... and why it took us more than 5,000 years to attach wheels to a suitcase! For too long we've underestimated the consequences of sexism in our everyday lives, and failed to grasp the extent to which it holds all of us - men and women - back. But it doesn't have to be this way. In Mother of Invention, best selling author Katrine Marçal sets the record straight and argues why, in a time of crisis, it is women who hold the key to our future.