Women's Full Power

Since the beginning of time, females in the human population have been seen as the weaker sex, as the ones whose only purpose is child bearing and the domestic care. Women were discriminated and denied various rights which now a day are granted to everyone freely. Men, on the other hand, are considered to be the ones who 'bring home the bacon', the ones who are supposed to deal with all the real problems, even in politics. Although there still might be this perception in some places in the world, overall in recent times this so called difference between the sexes has died down. Women are now allowed to vote, to participate in activities that they were not permitted in the past, they are now viewed as rivals at work, they are now viewed as competition. Even though, they do child bear and on rare cases do men ever handle any domestic problems, the role of women in the society has changed and is slowly changing. 

Not only is this true in humans but it is also true in animals. Females and males have different roles within their environment. Sadly, nature chose to grant females the great opportunity of experiencing child caring and in an indirect way keeping control over the male.

The other perception given relating to females vs. males. Is that males usually pursue the females. Although this may not apply to certain animal species, in humans this is fairly accurate. Males usually take the first step. But like Dawkins stated at the end of the chapter, has this role changed? Are males now the ones being pursued? And the most important question, why? How will this affect our genes and their survival machines?