RaveThe Telegraph (UK)Hrdy has taken one of the final big myths of human evolution – that childcare by men is peripheral or unimportant – and knocked it firmly on its head ... Hrdy is, without exaggeration, one of the most important thinkers in evolutionary biology since Darwin ... Her beautiful writing retains as much power to astound and educate as ever.
Anna Wiener
PositiveThe Observer (UK)Wiener’s account is not designed to shock in the way others have. It is instead intimate, the rolling thoughts of a young hipster sucked into this world against her better judgment ... If there was one part of this memoir I didn’t enjoy, it was her interminable lists of observations and objects so numerous you start to wonder whether they’re only there to beef up the word count ... That aside, though, this remains a beautifully relatable and tender account of a young woman trying her best to swallow Silicon Valley’s Kool-Aid, but never quite managing to keep it down.
Caroline Criado Perez
PositiveThe Guardian...useful and sobering ... Seeing imbalance in percentage terms gives the process of understanding and combating it an important dimension. The book offers endless nuggets to chew on ... What I would have liked to see more of in this book is some investigation of why, given all the data we have, we do so little to fix things.
