The author is indeed entitled to her strong convictions. However, the thoughtful reader has no obligation to pay the author for them. I scanned this book in a bricks-and-mortar bookstore, and decided to leave it on the shelf.Instead of this book, I recommend that you buy "The Midwife's Apprentice", read it with your daughters, and ponder what it says about plucky girls and their chances for success in any age.It's the individual's imagination and strength of will that matter, not the biases of others. After all, Judy Mann's gender hasn't prevented her from getting her work published, has it?