“Decades of rigorous testing of girls and boys confirm that there are few psychological differences between the sexes, and that the differences seen are heavily shaped by culture, not biology.” — 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 and others have repeatedly demonstrated that boys and girls have little, if any, noticeable gaps between… — 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
