Delusions of Gender

“Cordelia Fine is a really well established and respected neuroscience ethicist. Since this 2010 book there have been other books that have developed similar arguments, but I like to go back to this one because it is very clearly and accessibly argued and documented. She has had such a big impact, so this is kind of the original source to go to. What she’s showing here is that brain research over a hundred years or more has tried to establish that women are inferior, that their brains are inferior. But it has been unsuccessful in every instance.” Read more...

The best books on Gender Inequality

Linda Scott, Economist

“Cornelia’s book is a rigorous walk through the scientific literature that presents the facts about gender differences. She blows up a lot of the popular books which posited that ‘men are from Mars and women are from Venus’ and described the male and female brain as fundamentally different. Cordelia’s book puts the real and relatively small differences between men and women into perspective.” Read more...

The best books on Behavioral Science

Nicholas Epley, Psychologist