Inferior
How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. Science has continued to tell us that men and women are fundamentally different. But a huge wave of research is now revealing that women are as strong, powerful, strategic, and smart as anyone else. Saini takes readers on a journey to uncover science's failure to understand women and to show how women's bodies and minds are finally being rediscovered.
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I love nonfiction that reads like fiction. I'm not a fan of textbooks however. I was hoping for the NTRLF, but this book felt more like a textbook.
The information was solid. I simply like books that are a bit more energetic.
An exceptional and well overdue book. A must read for anyone concerned with how the world works and the influence of science on how we view society works.
We know how easily scientific studies can be skewed by biased researchers. Consequently centuries of gender studies conducted by male scientists got a few things wrong. Analogously to Cordelia Fine's [b:Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference 8031168 Delusions of Gender How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference Cordelia Fine https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348833681s/8031168.jpg 12635310] Saini's book sets out to rigorously and thoroughly debunk some of those myths. With a heavier focus on biology and anthropology than Fine, Inferior looks at influential and controversial studies, that ultimately ask if patriotism is hard-wired into our biology.
