RaveThe Sunday Times (UK)... punchy and incisive ... Undeterred, Sieghart offers pages of solutions ... Above all, she says, we need to notice our biases \'and make sure that we correct for them in all our interactions\'. If that sounds forced and exhausting, it is surely less so than putting up with a lifetime’s condescension.
Mary Ann Sieghart
MixedThe New StatesmanThis is a deeply researched, comprehensive book – so comprehensive, in fact, it can at times read like an A-Z of gender studies, offering plenty of \'what\' but little \'why\'. It is odd, in a book about male privilege, that so little space is dedicated to examining the psychological roots of misogyny, even less to the problem of childcare and the division of unpaid labour. And, despite Sieghart’s pleas for optimism, it is hard not to leave this book feeling gloomy: girls, we’re told, internalise bias, are silenced, sapped of self-confidence and forced to battle to be heard. All of which is true, of course, but it hardly makes me feel like fighting.
