I think everyone, man and woman should read this book. Solnit completely dismantled any claim that women ARE equal. She points out the weaknesses in any person who says that feminism isn't necessary, multiple paragraphs drove him many thoughts that every woman has had at one point. My favorite paragraphs is Solnit describing "mansplaining": the act of a man explaining to a woman something he is not particularly knowledgable in simply because he's a man and sees a woman as "an empty vessel needing to be filled with a man knowledge."