Anne Trout

The Long Journey to the Empowerment of Women Anne Trout

After more than a century of determined struggle to achieve rights equal to those of men, women can look to the future with optimism. However, in spite of robust advancements, particularly in the universal acceptance by the political system of the justice of the cause, the women's movement has not succeded in defeating the dominance of the heteropatriarchal ideology over most societies. Can this be explained simply as inertia?This article contributes an innovative and extraordinary interpretation of the genesis of tha patriarchal ideology and of the mechanisms that insured its survival and success through hundreds of thousands of years. After a long career looking at the outside, primatologist Anne Trout looks at the inside of the human race, to unearth some uncomfortable truths.