Not Worth It: Myths About Women And Money
Why do women still doubt their economic worth?
En kvinnas värde examines the stories women inherit about money, work, risk, beauty, love and ageing. From the myth of the male-breadwinner, to the idea that women are naturally more cautious with money, or that a woman’s value declines as she gets older.
At its centre is the idea of economic gaslighting. Women are told that men have always been the providers, making female economic independence seem like the exception rather than the norm. They are told that prostitution is “the world’s oldest profession”, turning women’s route to money into a story about male desire rather than female capability. They are told that it’s in their nature to avoid risk – when women have in fact managed financial risk for centuries.
This book takes these stories apart. Because the doubt that so many women carry – that money is somehow not their language – is not a private failing.
It was taught.
English edition forthcoming (2027)
Mother Of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored In An Economy Built For Men
An illuminating and maddening examination of how gender bias has skewed innovation, technology, and history
It all starts with a rolling suitcase. Though the wheel was invented some five thousand years ago, and the suitcase in the nineteenth century, it wasn’t until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? The answer is both shocking and simple: because “real men” carried their bags, no matter how heavy.
Mother of Invention is a fascinating and eye-opening examination of business, technology, and innovation through a feminist lens. Because it wasn’t just the suitcase. Gender bias stifles the economy and holds us back, delaying innovations, sometimes by hundreds of years, and distorting our understanding of our history. While we talk about the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, we might as well talk about the “Ceramic Age” or the “Flax Age,” since these technologies were just as important. But inventions associated with women are not considered to be technology in the same way.
This is a sweeping tour of the global economy with a powerful message: if we upend our biases, we can unleash our full potential.
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?
“A smart, funny and readable book on women, economics and money.”
Margaret Atwood
Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain.
But every night Adam Smith’s mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love…
Today, economics disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking and its influence has spread from the market to how we shop, think and date…
This engaging takedown of the economics that has failed us, journeys from Adam Smith’s dinner table to the financial crisis and shows us how different, how much better, things could be.
If economics hadn’t forgotten about women…