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And not incidentally, caring about women translates into caring about the planet. The only way to slower population growth – eventually limiting our collective footprint – is to make it possible for women to have only the pregnancies they want.

Sooner or later our children will grow up, become sexual beings, fall in love. What they do is private. But what, and how, they learn is a public concern

Who’s responsible for globalization? Probably a woman called Ug. Ug recognised that the woman in the next cave made better mammoth-skin shoes than she did. She also knew that Mr. Ug threw a pretty hot spear, which meant she had more mammoth skin to work with. So the first trade was made…