Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

by Katrine Marçal

Book Overview

An illuminating and maddening examination of how gender bias has skews innovation, technology, history, and work by Swedish journalist Katrine Mar al

It all starts with a rolling suitcase.

The wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Mar al, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419758047
• ISBN13: 9781419758041
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"