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Ah, amazing the author starts right in the introduction with bragging about other books... I'm sure there was no other way to write this.
And it comes and goes over again across the whole book with a little of "trying to be humorous" here and there.
As serious as this work is, I can't take this writing style seriously. Take all this parts out, and the readers would be left with a firmly good researched work and a well documented process of thoughts - but then I fear it wouldn't be a book anymore which is open for the wider audience. But a scientific paper, only few would read. (However I personally would prefer the last)
While it is easy to agree with the wider topic of this book - that women are injustly percieved as less and/or more talented in certain topics created through enforced stereotypes - there are parts which could have been questioned further and are (in my opinion) still open to debate. For example the author talks about a survey that claims that women become less femine in order to archive higher potential in male dominated topics of interest. Well yes, I myself don't know much about this, but it does wonder me that without a second thought, it gets accepted by Fine that being "less female" has something to do with wearing no make up and don't wanting to have children? I do think very much that this part of the survey should haven been questioned.
However, I want to end my review with the Margaret Thatcher quote stated earlier in the book:
"I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime." (1973)
As this quote proved to be wrong a few years later, so is this book also already kind of out of date. I belive there are books out there which catch the more recent zeitgeist of the topic of discussion with again some distinctive views. In 2005 this was probably some what revolutionary - I can't tell - in 2020 at least the actuality of the topic remained, still it lacks diversity in related topics such as gender identity rather than repetitive writing gender roles.
Finally my last summerized words: It doesn't harm to read this book.
And it comes and goes over again across the whole book with a little of "trying to be humorous" here and there.
As serious as this work is, I can't take this writing style seriously. Take all this parts out, and the readers would be left with a firmly good researched work and a well documented process of thoughts - but then I fear it wouldn't be a book anymore which is open for the wider audience. But a scientific paper, only few would read. (However I personally would prefer the last)
While it is easy to agree with the wider topic of this book - that women are injustly percieved as less and/or more talented in certain topics created through enforced stereotypes - there are parts which could have been questioned further and are (in my opinion) still open to debate. For example the author talks about a survey that claims that women become less femine in order to archive higher potential in male dominated topics of interest. Well yes, I myself don't know much about this, but it does wonder me that without a second thought, it gets accepted by Fine that being "less female" has something to do with wearing no make up and don't wanting to have children? I do think very much that this part of the survey should haven been questioned.
However, I want to end my review with the Margaret Thatcher quote stated earlier in the book:
"I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime." (1973)
As this quote proved to be wrong a few years later, so is this book also already kind of out of date. I belive there are books out there which catch the more recent zeitgeist of the topic of discussion with again some distinctive views. In 2005 this was probably some what revolutionary - I can't tell - in 2020 at least the actuality of the topic remained, still it lacks diversity in related topics such as gender identity rather than repetitive writing gender roles.
Finally my last summerized words: It doesn't harm to read this book.