The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future

Chapter 1

Great Britain

“In a world with less money, close personal relationships are more important.”

(82.1% agree)

Fixed to trees and streetlights, the handmade posters were decorated with arrows and the words “Sea of Rage This Way.” They pointed toward the student union building at the University of London. There, on the morning of November 9, 2011, a crowd grew larger by the minute beneath a sky of unbroken clouds. At noon, the scene resembled a street fair. An elderly man in an orange kilt danced a jig to music from a boom box that he had placed on the street. A few yards away, hip-hop beats poured out of a portable loudspeaker strapped ...