Why Gender Matters
by Leonard Sax · first published 2005
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…chapter is best; other parts are more light-weight; easy read) Clouds of Witnesses - Dorothy Sayers (not my favorite Sayers mystery, but enjoyable) A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle (recommended) Why Gender Matters - Leonard Sax (recommended; most of the book is based on good science, but he does go out on a limb a time or two.) Old School - Tobias Wolff (recommended; a world before widespread TV where high school…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗An excellent read is Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about The Emerging Science of Sex Differences. http://amzn.to/1NKVQ6d
on “How Can There Still Be a Sex Difference, Even When There Is No Sex Difference?” ↗http://www.amazon.com/Why-Gender-Matters-Teachers-Difference...
on ““Why do women try to get ahead by pulling men down?”” ↗Interesting stuff. I wonder, though: > 62. In Why Gender Matters, Dr. Sax explains that "anomalous males" -- boys who like to read, who don't enjoy competitive sports or rough-and-tumble play, and who don't have a lot of close male friends -- should be firmly disciplined,…
on “Teaching boys and girls separately” ↗Last paragraph of TFA: > But “different” doesn’t necessarily imply “better.” As I stressed in the second edition of my book Why Gender Matters, apples and oranges are different. That doesn’t mean apples are better than oranges. Men and women are turning out to be different, more different than we may have imagined. That doesn’t mean that women…
on “New Research Finds Differences Between Male and Female Brains” ↗Looks like they _might_ have been in the study set, but weren't separated out and focused on? At any rate, the author is hoping for the same: "In the first edition of my book Why Gender Matters, published by Doubleday in 2005, I devoted a chapter to kids who are psychologically “gender-atypical.” I suggested that these kids are somewhere in between male and female. But the Stanford study provides…
on “New Research Finds Differences Between Male and Female Brains” ↗