Gender inequalities are increasingly defended by citing hard-wired differences between the male and female brain. 'A witty and meticulously researched expose of the sloppy studies that pass for scientific evidence in so many of today's bestselling books on sex differences.' Carol Tavris, TLS

Read her, enjoy and learn.' Hilary Rose, THES 'A brilliant feminist critic of the neurosciences. 'Fun, droll yet deeply serious.' New Scientist So I agree with Fine.Īnyone out there reading Fine? Let us know what you think, and email Sonia if you find parts related to the single sex education issue.THE BRILLIANT AND HUGELY INFLUENTIAL BOOK BY THE WINNER OF THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOKS PRIZE Fine dismisses such ''neurononsense.''' I must say I found no convincing evidence for these claims when I reviewed brain differences for AWIS Magazine recently. An influential campaigner for single-sex education, Sax once claimed that the areas of the brain involved in language and fine motor skills mature about six years earlier in girls, while those involved in maths and geometry mature about four years earlier in boys. In an email to me, Sonia said, 'If others have comments on how Fine's book addresses or has implications re legal issues in the US about sex segregation or how her research relates to research of folks like Janet Hyde and Lise Eliot, please let us know at an article on Fine's book, Suzy Freeman-Greene of Age says Fine found her son Isaac's kindergarten teacher 'was reading Why Gender Matters by US physician Leonard Sax. Sonia Fuentes, our Title VII advisor, and her friends and collaborators, are very interested in the use of such evidence to argue for single-sex education.

She complains in the book that, ''It is appalling to me that one can, apparently, say whatever drivel one likes about the male and female brain and enjoy the pleasure of seeing it published in a reputable newspaper, changing a school's educational policy or becoming a bestseller.'' in evaluating evidence for female brains that are empathy-wired and communication-wired, and for male brains that are math-wired but with weaker communication abilities, she finds, '''a surprising number of gaps, assumptions, inconsistencies, poor methodologies and leaps of faith'' in the evidence that would support such conclusions.įine studied psychology at Oxford and has a PhD in neuroscience. Delusions of Gender, the new book by Cordelia Fine ripostes much of the current news coverage on gender differences in the brain.

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