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2008-03-09 00:37:00
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NYT Review: The Sexual Paradox

Follow-up to Friday's post: New York Times review of Susan Pinker's new book. Review by Emily Bazelon, "senior editor at Slate."
Tags: books, people vs objects, work-life balance

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[info]laurenhat

March 11 2008, 19:13:34 UTC 4 years ago

Meh. Thanks for the link. I do not want to read this book. Citing Baron-Cohen with no caveats, plus things like this:

...Pinker quotes a female Ivy League law professor: “I am very skeptical of the notion that society discourages talented women from becoming scientists,” the professor writes. “My experience, at least from the educational phase of my life, is that the very opposite is true.” If women aren’t racing to the upper echelons of science, government and the corporate world despite decades of efforts to woo them, Pinker argues, then it must be because they are wired to resist the demands at the top of those fields.


Er, wired? That is by no means the only option. Sigh.
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