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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini

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debthebee's review

3.0

Interesting topic, but I liked the scope of the topic and writing style in Invisible Women a bit more. I might write a longer review later.

monicaa_d's review

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informative fast-paced

4.0

I enjoyed this book. It was a good look into how science has addressed sex differences in the past- often scientists unabashedly have an agenda, and even when that's absent there are ingrained biased which may affect their results. I liked that the author interviewed many scientists rather than just citing their works- they were able to give their thoughts, opinions, and conclusions in their own words and respond to the feedback they've received about their work. This struck me as similar to the book Eve's conclusions on sex differences, but dove deeper into the past and into the minds of modern scientists in the field.

angelpearacolyte's review against another edition

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2.0

About halfway through. This book is considerably less well-written than similar books by Cordelia Fine, Daphna Joel, and Rebecca Jordan-Young, and grants an irritating amount of "fairness" to the clearly less rigorous Simon Baron-Cohen and the obviously sexist Ruben Gur. Gur's insistence on (the possibly religious idea of) "complementarianism" despite his own evidence should be enough to relegate him to a foot ote in this book. Unclear why the author didn't focus more on Melissa Hines' work if she wanted to be fair.

It's also really weird how the author thinks sexism was gone in the 1970s and 1980s just because there was a feminist movement at the time.

brittinareads's review against another edition

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Excellent. Sani is able to provide various perspectives in a very informative but easily digestible read

saracox's review against another edition

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5.0

As a scientist myself, I see all the time the imbalance of sexes within the industry. As a teacher, I see girls outperform boys in exams all the way through the school, the gender gap in attainment is one national trend many school are trying to combat. So when this book was made available to me through the school (each school got sent one free copy) I nabbed it up before any of my peers could.
This book covered how males and fnelaes have been viewed differently throughout history and how scientific developments have changed the views of both sexes. Even Darwin thought that women were lesser than men cognitively, which shocked me considering his research on evolution. There is evidence from neurological research and anthropological observation debunking views so engrained in our societal views that they as seen as common knowledge.
This book is definitely for the feminist. Both the brains of men and women have been studied and observed in tribes and show that we have so few differences. Myths of "women are better at multitasking" and "men are hunters" are challenged and proven otherwise.
I have nothing but praise for this book and cannot wait to read the next: Superior