Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quote

Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the mostimportant attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was more likely to lead.And men in general are physically stronger. (There are of course many exceptions.)Today, we live in a vastly diʃerent world. The person more qualiɹed to lead is not thephysically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the morecreative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is aslikely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved. But ourideas of gender have not evolved very much.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the mostimportant attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was more likely to lead.And men in general are physically stronger. (There are of course many exceptions.)Today, we live in a vastly diʃerent world. The person more qualiɹed to lead is not thephysically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the morecreative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is aslikely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved. But ourideas of gender have not evolved very much.

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