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A powerful book exploring the science as to why history has got the notion that women are inferior to men wrong. This was infuriating at times but ultimately interesting with studies and facts to back up the arguments. It was a little repetitive in places but I still found it engaging while showing how much work is still to be done

Acclaimed scientist & writer, Angela Saini, NF-LC, BC a welcome new study suggests that science is rewriting the old theories that explain why women were best suited to housework and men are natural philanthropist. A new book that explores how science has misrepresented women.
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Our historically male-run world defaults to men, including in how research is performed and interpreted, from medicine to anthropology. This book explores some of the historical biases and the “facts” they have pushed as well as the way in which newer data and studies, often driven by female researchers, are questioning this history. Really well done.

This is precisely the book I needed to read right now. Keep fighting the good fight.

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I just found this article on the guardian interesting https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-world-built-for-men-c... about how when things are designed for the average man that they can actually be unsafe for women. It reminded me of things bought up in the tagged book.
As a short left handed woman I am so used to the world not being designed with me in mind. I can‘t reach top shelves and scissors are agony! 😆

I think my brother knows me well!! #feminist 💪🏻

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An important and occasionally infuriating read that highlights the progress women have made and how much still needs to be done.

Love it! I am eternally grateful for people like Saini who are willing to wade through so much research and talk about things from several angles. This was so much fun to listen to!

1. Yes and plenty of it!

2. It's about 50/50

3. Anything to do with feminism and society

4. Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine

5. Inferior by Angela Saini - excellent book

Thanks for the prompts from @wanderinglynn , whichI spotted on @LibrarianRyan 's profile 📚

I'm loving this book - although it's hard to believe that it, in the 21st century, we're still clinging to the idea that men and women are so different. Scientists desperately searching for differences between male and female brains, differences that simply aren't there.

And why can't people get their heads around the concept that your environment shapes your brain? The evidence is there!

Oh really?! What a surprise 🤨😐😑

I'm loving this book, but it's also making me angry - men who think the world has no bias against women need to read this book. #feminism #feministbooks

This seemed like the perfect book for me, and it might have been under other circumstances. Saini explores how women have been portrayed in science, and how this influence the way women are treated today. I found it beyond interesting, but it did get a bit hard to keep my mind focused on all the studies‘ details. It reminded me a bit of some of the research papers I had to read for uni, and I don‘t think I was ready for that yet

An enjoyable and informative read from a woc. I love science and whilst I don't always understand it I came away reminded about how hard it is for people to not bring their own bias into this sort of research and the implications it can have in the real world and how important it is to have diversity in science and for people to question each other's research. #nonfiction2018

#diversespines books and drink. I'm at work at night so I needed energy drink with my current read.

The tagged book is my April book for my #yearlyreadingplan

Very good. I listened to the Audiobook version of this which was a good way to enjoy this book but with every chapter there is a quote from other sources and with this version it is hard to see the the separation from the start of the chapter. The narrator was very easy to listen to.

#HarperCollins

Fascinating!

And the bottom half of the Phenomenal Women section. As I said, I could have spent a bunch, especially on this bottom half, but I can control myself because they‘re mostly hardcover at the moment, so I‘ll wait for the paperbacks...

Next up on audio.

Reading about gender biases in science is making me a wee bit angry.

I just did not enjoy this nonfiction book at all. This is a book that analyzes major studies regarding sex differences and the major ways science has failed women. I found it intriguing, but so repetitive. It felt like the same argument in every chapter and not many variations in the way it was said. I also found it to be dry and boring.

Here is my #top3 #nonfiction2017 I am surprised that 2 of the covers are yellow. I usually don't post my no fiction books in Instagram because I do it in audio, but I will try to add them this year. Listen so many amazing books!
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This book examines the science behind gender differences. Focusing on evidence on brain connections, brain size, life expectancy, history of women's work, "choosy, not chaste", menopause and evolution, and the importance of replicable, evidence-based science, the author presents studies that have reinforced and refuted women's inferiority. Intriguing!

The majority of my none fiction books are in audio. Seems that is easier for me to listen them than to read them. I like how here we learn that none even science are exempt of discrimination and how these had an impact none only in our daily lives but also in our health. The narrator is really good and I didn't notice the 7 hrs I spent listen to it

How is it the end of November already??? This month just flew by, but that means the #ReadingWomenAward 2017 episode is almost here.⠀

While this was an amazing year for women in fiction, the nonfiction department didn't seem to have as many contenders. Are there any nonfiction books by women published this year that we missed? ⠀

That said, we are super excited about our nonfiction shortlist. There are some killer reads here. ⠀

The #ReadingWomenAward nonfiction shortlist went up today! I couldn‘t be more excited to share the amazing group of book @autumnprivett and I have been keeping under wraps do so long. Books like this one: INFERIOR by Angela Saini.

Conveniently, it‘s also still #NonfictionNovember, so if you are still looking for book recs, we are totally here for you.

Congrats to all of the brilliant writers on this year‘s list. I love you all.
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“[Darwin‘s] ideas may have been revolutionary, but his attitudes to women were solidly Victorian.”

This is helping me to appreciate The Essex Serpent even more! In other news, Darwin was an arse.

Oh, dear. This book is getting me ALL fired up.

This is an accessible primer on multiple fields of research (neuroscience, evolution, anthropology) into sex differences. Saini has a clear agenda--to poke holes in shoddy research that has been used to prop up misogyny and sex stereotypes throughout history. If you are on board with that crusade, you'll enjoy the book. I think she succeeds in raising some legitimate questions. Feminism has made science better, and Saini tells that story well.

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Darwin should have known better than to directly compare the evolutionary outcomes for populations experiencing different pressures. 🙄

I heard this author talking about her book on npr today. It sounds sooooo goooood!

Happy book birthday 🎉 to this deep, deep dive into the pervasiveness of sexism in STEM and our culture at large.

Book mail! Wasn't expecting the LibraryThing giveaway book to be a hard cover but it's a nice bonus from Beacon Press! The other two are my picks from BOTM club this month.