Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences

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Cordelia Fine

A vehement attack on the latest pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes.

Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles increasingly defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and the female brain. That's the reason, we're told, why there are so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room - different brains are just better suited to different things.

Drawing on the latest research in the developmental psychology, neuroscience and social psychology, Delusions of Gender powerfully rebuts these claims, showing how old myths, dressed up in new scientific finery, are helping to perpetuate the sexist status quo.

Tags: 2010, All Products, Contemporary, Cordelia Fine, Nonfiction