Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie first gave the world "We Should All Be Feminists" as a TEDx talk in 2013.

A year later, the beloved lecture was published as a short book.

And now, with a brand-new Swedish translation, "Alla Borde Vera Feminister," the Swedish government is partnering with several national organizations to distribute the book to every 16-year-old in the country.

"This is the book that I wish all of my male classmates would have read when I was 16," said Clara Berglund, chairperson of Swedish Women's Lobby, one of the groups involved with the effort. "It feels so important to contribute to this project."

In "We Should All Be Feminists," Adichie touches on several of the consequences of gender imbalance.

She offers personal stories from her hometown of Lagos, like when she tipped a valet for parking her car and the man thanked the male friend, Louis, that Adichie was with at the time.

"Louis looked at me surprised, and asked, 'Why is he thanking me? I didn't give him the money.' Then I saw realization dawn on Louis's face," she says. "The man believed that whatever money I had had ultimately come from Louis, because Louis is a man."

She attacks the myth that people in power, males typically, possess innate qualities that better suit them for those powerful job roles.

"The person more likely to lead is not the physically stronger person," she says. "It is the more creative person, the more intelligent person, the more innovative person, and there are no hormones for those attributes."

Our ideas about what makes an effective leader may have evolved, she explains, but our attitudes toward gender have not.

The Swedish program hopes to pass on some of that wisdom to its 16-year-olds, a group of kids right on the cusp of making some of life's biggest decisions. By giving kids the language to talk about feminism, many may find they are already in that camp.

"When I was 16 I don’t think I knew what the word 'feminist' meant," Adichie says in a video she made for the students. "I don't think I knew the word at all. But I was a feminist."

The first school to participate is Norra Real High school, in Stockholm, which has already distributed the books to its students.

Beginning in the new year, the various organizations working on the project will distribute discussion guidelines to teachers throughout Sweden to help teach the book — as a way to encourage not just at-home reflection but the exchange of ideas where it could matter even more.