The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World
by Helen E. Fisher
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This explosive book will change the way you see yourself, your family, and the world around you, including every man and woman you meet. Drawing on original research, the celebrated anthropologist Helen Fisher reveals inThe First Sexhow women's natural talents are changing the world, making women ideal leaders and successful shapers of business and society today and on into the twenty-first century. Through deep evolutionary history, women and men developed different show more abilities and brain structures. InThe First Sex, Fisher explores how women's innate superiorities are particularly well adapted to today's global society. Why is entrepreneurial America increasingly female? Why are many American philanthropic organizations led by women? How are women changing what we watch on television? How are women changing medicine and the law? Why are women better able to juggle many tasks at once--an important talent for today's executive? The answers lie in prehistory. Fisher shows how the special structure of the female brain enables women to do "web thinking" or "synthesis thinking," as compared to men's more linear or "step" thinking, and she shows why this difference in female and male brain structure and thinking creates opportunities, and complications, for women in the business world. With anecdotes and stories, Fisher explores how women's special talents--superior verbal abilities, people savvy, acute senses, healing techniques, and more--are geared to success in medicine, education, communications, law, philanthropy, government, and police work. Changes in society--the growth of the global service and communications economy--are also giving women an advantage: women's unique talents are especially needed in our modern age. The evolution of women's sexual, romantic, and family lives is also explored as Fisher traces the origins in prehistory of the differences between the ways men and women love and bond. She discusses new trends in families, maintaining that if there ever was a time when men and women had the opportunity to make fulfilling marriages, that time is now. "Like a glacier," Fisher says, "contemporary women are slowly overturning worldwide business and social practices, creating a new economic and social landscape." Provocative and eye-opening, The First Sex will make you think, and will help you understand why people are the way they are--and why, as Fisher says, "tomorrow belongs to women." show lessTags
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I am not going to say that this book should be passed up. I actually very much enjoy Helen Fisher and her anthropological work the incorporates biology and sociology. This book is simply at bit dated, and reads as such. The items of most interest were those related to the differences between women and men based on sound biological and anthropological evidence. Women and men lived in egalitarian societies up until the invention of the plow and the introduction of farming. Women and men solve problems differently, have different emotional responses, and have different brain cognizance. Neither is worse nor better than the other...both were/are needed to create balance.
Fisher is obviously a strong advocate for women and women's abilities. show more Is the present creating a world environment that will strongly benefit from women's abilities? Fisher lays out very sound arguments. Since the writing of the book, there is indication that some of her arguments are beginning to be realized. I hope Fisher is correct. show less
Fisher is obviously a strong advocate for women and women's abilities. show more Is the present creating a world environment that will strongly benefit from women's abilities? Fisher lays out very sound arguments. Since the writing of the book, there is indication that some of her arguments are beginning to be realized. I hope Fisher is correct. show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Donne: il primo sesso. Come le donne stanno cambiando il mondo
- Original title
- The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World
- Alternate titles*
- La mente della donna. I talenti naturali delle donne che stanno cambiando il mondo
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 305.4 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women
- LCC
- GN479.7 .F57 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Anthropology Anthropology Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology Cultural traits, customs, and institutions Social organization
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