The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women

Women are the weaker sex, the beautiful sex, the gentle sex… That’s what we usually hear from people who like to philosophize about differences between genders, or what we see on greeting cards and in internet posts. But if you look at a woman not from a social or physiological perspective, but by tracing her differences from a man at the genetic level, an entirely different picture appears.

Sharon Moalem, a Canadian-American physician-geneticist, makes the following discovery: because women have two X chromosomes, they are superior to men at the genetic level. They handle threats and risks of the modern world better—including diseases. Using examples from her own personal life experience, the author explains how the idea for such research was born, and in an accessible way shows the significance of her findings for further development of medicine.