In 1960, Beauvoir wrote that The Second Sex was an attempt to explain "why a woman's situation, still, even today, prevents her from exploring the world's basic problems."
Godine 1960, Bovoar je napisala da Drugi pol predstavlja pokušaj da se objasni „zašto ženu njen položaj, još uvek, čak i danas, sprečava da istražuje osnovne probleme u svetu“.