A vehement attack on the latest claims about the differences between the sexes

Posted on 2013/12/03 , tagged as press

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You will read a lot in the press today about the ‘hard-wired’ differences between male and female brains, so perhaps it’s time to check out Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences.

Gender inequalities are increasingly defended by citing hard-wired differences between the male and female brain. That’s why, we’re told, there are so few women in science, so few men in the laundry room – different brains are just suited to different things. Not so, argues cognitive neuroscientist Cordelia Fine.

As seen in the Independent today:

‘A pioneering study has shown for the first time that the brains of men and women are wired up differently which could explain some of the stereotypical differences in male and female behaviour, scientists have said.’

Cordelia Fine also responded to the new study over on The Conversation:

‘The continuing importance of this message is only reinforced by this latest case study in how easily scientific “neurosexism” can, with a little stereotype-inspired imagination, contribute to inaccurate and harmful lay misunderstanding of what neuroscience tells us about the sexes.’

Head over to here to find out more about the book. Delusions of Gender is available from all good bookshops and as an eBook – only £1.79 at the moment on Kindle!