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

Inferior

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

2017 • 226 pages

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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.

May 7, 2019