As my first read of 2024, I picked up Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, I had been wanting to read this after reading The Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, which was a bit too old and I needed to read something contemporary on the topic. Once, I had come across a question," Is the representation of women in politics less than men, because women generally lack an interest in politics?". Do men have an inherent interest in the "real world"? How different are women from men actually? What is it like being a woman? What is a woman? Being a woman is much more than being a female. One should not separate the female from the female situation when forming any thoughts upon the woman. The Second Sex talks about this in expansive description and analysis. The book is divided into two volumes: 1. Volume I: Facts and Myths 2. Volume II: Lived Experience FACTS AND MYTHS The text begins with an examination of the biological explanations a