Mother of Invention

Katrine Marçal (HarperCollins, $37.99)

From the beginning of time, women have been pivotal to our society, offering ingenious solutions to some of our most vexing problems. Despite these successes, we are still giving just 3 per cent of venture capital to female founders. For too long we have underestimated the consequences of sexism in our economy, and the way it holds all of us – women and men – back.