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Robunny
03-28-2011, 12:41 PM
Delusions of Gender takes on that tricky question, Why exactly are men from Mars and women from Venus?, and eviscerates both the neuroscientists who claim to have found the answers and the popularizers who take their findings and run with them...
https://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/10/gender-gap-myth-cordelia-fine


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Dixon
03-29-2011, 04:40 AM
Delusions of Gender takes on that tricky question, Why exactly are men from Mars and women from Venus?, and eviscerates both the neuroscientists who claim to have found the answers and the popularizers who take their findings and run with them...
https://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/10/gender-gap-myth-cordelia-fine

I read the linked article, which does indeed say that Fine's book "...eviscerates both the neuroscientists who claim to have found the answers and the popularizers who take their findings and run with them...", but unfortunately it doesn't give enough information to give a sense of whether Fine actually has a compelling argument. I won't find time to read Fine's book any time soon, so if any of you have read it and would be kind enough to summarize her argument, please do.