Table of Contents
Preface xv
Introduction: The Default Male 1
Part I Daily Life 27
Chapter 1 Can Snow-Clearing be Sexist? 29
Chapter 2 Gender Neutral With Urinals 47
Part II The Workplace 67
Chapter 3 The Long Friday 69
Chapter 4 The Myth of Meritocracy 92
Chapter 5 The Henry Higgins Effect 112
Chapter 6 Being Worth Less Than a Shoe 128
Part III Design 143
Chapter 7 The Plough Hypothesis 145
Chapter 8 One-Size-Fits-Men 157
Chapter 9 A Sea of Dudes 169
Part IV Going to the Doctor 193
Chapter 10 The Drugs Don't Work 195
Chapter 11 Yentl Syndrome 217
Part V Public Life 237
Chapter 12 A Costless Resource to Exploit 239
Chapter 13 From Purse to Wallet 254
Chapter 14 Women's Rights are Human Rights 265
Part VI When it Goes Wrong 287
Chapter 15 Who Will Rebuild? 289
Chapter 16 It's Not the Disaster that Kills You 296
Afterword 310
Epilogue 319
Acknowledgements 324
Endnotes 327
Index 400