“For women to overcome this biological inequality, he adds, they would have to become breadwinners like men. And this wouldn’t be a good idea because it might damage young children and the happiness of households. Darwin is telling Kennard that… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“Sex hormones play a crucial role in determining how male or female a person looks even before birth. In the womb, it’s interesting to… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“Gender bias is so steeped in the culture, their results implied, that women were themselves discriminating against other women.” — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“Decades of rigorous testing of girls and boys confirm that there are few psychological differences between the sexes, and that the differences seen are… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“The Institute for Women’s Policy Research in the United States estimates that in 2015 women working full time earned only seventy-nine cents for every… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“In 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country to grant women the vote.” — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“Study after study has shown almost all behavioral and psychological differences between the sexes to be small or nonexistent. Cambridge University psychologist Melissa Hines… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“For women to overcome this biological inequality, he adds, they would have to become breadwinners like men. And this wouldn’t be a good idea… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“A radical move from the old Victorian orthodoxies of the kind Charles Darwin had subscribed to was underway. People could no longer clearly define… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“Imbalance in the sciences is at least partly because women face a web of pressures throughout their lives, which men often don’t face.” — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“Women now make up almost half the labor force, yet in 2014 the bureau found that women spent about half an hour more every… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“The scientific picture emerging now is that there may be very small biological differences, but that these can be so easily reinforced by society… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“Hormonal effects on the brain or other deep-seated biological gaps aren’t necessarily the most powerful reason for the gaps we see between the sexes.… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“We know that around the age of two or three, children start to become aware of their own sex. Between the ages of four… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“women may respond differently from men to certain drugs. Medical researchers in the mid-twentieth century often assumed this couldn’t be a problem. “There was… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
“In 1993 the US Congress introduced the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act, which includes a general requirement for all NIH-funded clinical studies to… — Angela Saini Copy Share Image
