Let’s start a small Friday tradition: a “book for the weekend” that is actually worth your time.
This week: “Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution” by Cat Bohannon .
What stayed with me is how strongly the book challenges the idea that the male body is the baseline. It isn’t - the female body has been shaping evolution from the very beginning, and far more than we tend to acknowledge.
At the same time, it made me reflect on something less comfortable: at some point, women adapted into a position that allowed us to move into the background. Not because of biology, but because of how systems, roles, and expectations evolved around us.
The book explains very clearly why men and women respond differently: physically, cognitively, emotionally. Not in terms of better or worse, but in terms of different design. Which means expecting identical behaviors in leadership, decision-making, or stress situations is simply not realistic.
After reading it, you start looking at women with even more respect: for what we create, how we influence, and how much of the system quietly depends on that.
I would recommend it to everyone. For women, it gives language and perspective. For men, it gives understanding of who is actually next to them, and why they think, react, and lead the way they do.
This week: “Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution” by Cat Bohannon .
What stayed with me is how strongly the book challenges the idea that the male body is the baseline. It isn’t - the female body has been shaping evolution from the very beginning, and far more than we tend to acknowledge.
At the same time, it made me reflect on something less comfortable: at some point, women adapted into a position that allowed us to move into the background. Not because of biology, but because of how systems, roles, and expectations evolved around us.
The book explains very clearly why men and women respond differently: physically, cognitively, emotionally. Not in terms of better or worse, but in terms of different design. Which means expecting identical behaviors in leadership, decision-making, or stress situations is simply not realistic.
After reading it, you start looking at women with even more respect: for what we create, how we influence, and how much of the system quietly depends on that.
I would recommend it to everyone. For women, it gives language and perspective. For men, it gives understanding of who is actually next to them, and why they think, react, and lead the way they do.