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How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

Author: Angela Saini
ISBN: 9780807010037

What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades, scientists--most of them male, of course--claimed to find evidence to support this. Whether looking at intelligence or emotion, cognition or behavior, science has continued to tell us that men and women are fundamentally different. Biologists claim that women are better suited to raising families or are, more gently, uniquely empathetic. Men, on the other hand, continue to be described as excelling at tasks that require logic, spatial reasoning, and motor skills. But a huge wave of research is now revealing an alternative version of what we thought we knew. The new woman revealed by this scie

Publisher: Beacon Press
Publish Date: 2017

Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / Evolution, Science / History, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: STEM)