THE PATRIARCHS: How men came to rule, by Angela Saini (Fourth Estate, $37.99), is out on March 8.
atriarchy isn’t natural. There’s nothing in humans’ biological make-up that means it makes sense for men to have power that women don’t. History and prehistory provide multiple examples of societies where women worked, fought and governed alongside men, as well as those in which domestic and social arrangements privileged the needs of women