What Science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: Women were the inferior sex.
Inferior investigates the gender wars in biology, psychology, and anthropology, and delves into cutting-edge scientific studies to uncover a fascinating new portrait of women\'s brains, bodies, and role in human evolution..
As Saini reveals, however, groundbreaking Research is finally rediscovering women\'s bodies and minds.
Sexist assumptions are stubbornly persistent: even in recent years, researchers have insisted that Women are choosy and monogamous while men are naturally promiscuous, or that the way men\'s and women\'s brains are wired confirms long-discredited gender stereotypes.
As Saini takes readers on a journey to uncover science\'s failure to understand women, she finds that we\'re still living with the legacy of an establishment that\'s just beginning to recover from centuries of entrenched exclusion and prejudice.
In Inferior , acclaimed Science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating--and sorely necessary--new Science of women.
The new woman revealed by this scientific data is as strong, strategic, and smart as anyone else.
But a huge wave of Research is now revealing an alternative version of what we thought we knew.
Men, on the other hand, continue to be described as excelling at tasks that require logic, spatial reasoning, and motor skills.
Biologists claim that Women are better suited to raising families or are, more gently, uniquely empathetic.
Whether looking at intelligence or emotion, cognition or behavior, Science has continued to tell us that men and Women are fundamentally different.
No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that Women were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades, scientists--most of them male, of course--claimed to find evidence to support this.
Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient.
What Science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: Women were the inferior sex
