Jim Alfredson

As I was sitting in Greenfield Village with the girls and my wife, the five of us enjoying copious amounts of frozen custard, and thinking about how things were for women back in those days (around 1850 or so), I had the following thought: How much further along would the human race be if the majority of societies were not as ruthlessly patriarchal? How many potential Einsteins/Newtons/Edisons/Teslas/Darwins/Platos/etc. did we lose due to the misogyny inherent in the most successful civilizat...