Drawing her life from the lives of the unknown who were her forerunners, as her brother did before her, she will be born. As for her coming without that preparation, without that effort on our part, without that determination that when she is born again she shall find it possible to live and write her poetry, that we cannot expect, for that would be impossible. But I maintain that she would come if we worked for her, and that so to work, even in poverty and obscurity, is worth while. This book is considered to be the beginning of modern feminism. De Beauvoir makes a clear distinction between sex and gender.
Sex is a biological construct.
Gender is a societal construct. Thus society paints woman as other . Women have been made inferior and the relationship is compounded by men's belief that women are inferior by nature. The patriarchy will fall if women can break out of objectification. Biology Traditional thinking is that a woman's destiny is her womb.