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- Except for the simple difference in size, there are no meaningful differences between men’s and women’s brain structure or activity that hold up across diverse populations. Nor do any of the alleged brain differences actually explain the familiar but modest differences in personality and abilities between men and women.
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Aug 4, 2020 · A century after the birth of Rosalind Franklin, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, it's sadly time to once again shed light on the prejudices about women's brains and abilities. The view...
- Neurosexism
- History of Bias
- Cultural Paths
- Changing Minds
The history of sex-difference research is rife with innumeracy, misinterpretation, publication bias, weak statistical power, inadequate controls and worse. Rippon, a leading voice against the bad neuroscience of sex differences, uncovers so many examples in this ambitious book that she uses a whack-a-mole metaphor to evoke the eternal cycle. A brai...
Rippon’s central message is that “a gendered world will produce a gendered brain”. Her book stands with Angela Saini’s 2017 Inferior and Cordelia Fine’s 2010 Delusions of Genderin rooting out the “neurosexism” that has pervaded attempts to understand difference at the brain level. It’s a juicy history that would make for super-fun reading, if it we...
So if it’s not brain hard-wiring, how do we explain the often stark differences in behaviour and interests between men and women? Here is where we get to Rippon’s thesis on the impact of a gendered world on the human brain. She builds her case in four loosely defined parts, from the sordid history of sex-difference research through modern brain-ima...
This final focus explains the book’s subtitle, ‘The New Neuroscience that Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain’. For a volume about debunking brain difference, why narrow it to women? At first, I thought it was a stab at Louann Brizendine’s 2006 The Female Brain, skewered in these very pages (R. M. Young and E. Balaban Nature 443, 634; 2006). Or p...
- Lise Eliot
- 2019
When bigger isn’t always better: how history got the female brain wrong. Taking us back through centuries of sexism, Gina Rippon reveals how science has been misinterpreted or misused to ask the wrong questions and urges us to move beyond a binary view of the brain.
Mar 29, 2021 · The question has been explored for decades, but a new study led by Rosalind Franklin University neuroscientist Lise Eliot is the first to coalesce this wide-ranging research into a single...
Feb 19, 2024 · Research is cutting through historical discrimination and gender politics to get to the truth about differences between the brains of men and women. FOR most of recorded history, men and women...
Mar 27, 2024 · Non-binary comedian Mae Martin has an MRI of their brain analyzed by neuroscientist Lise Eliot to find out what, if anything, their brain reveals about their gender.
May 22, 2017 · Social psychologists and sociologists pooh-poohed the notion of any fundamental cognitive differences between male and female humans, notes Halpern, a professor emerita of psychology at Claremont McKenna College.
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