num_pages: 200
description: What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women and the fight by both female and male scientists to rewrite what we thought we knewFor hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker their minds feebler their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution and for decades scientistsmost of them male of courseclaimed to find evidence to support this.Whether looking at intelligence or emotion cognition or behavior science has continued to assert that men and women are fundamentally different. Biologists claim women are better suited to raising families or are more gently uniquely empathetic. Men on the other hand continue to be regarded as excelling at tasks that require logic spatial reasoning and motor skills. But a huge wave of new research reveals that women are as strong strategic and smart as anyone else.In Inferior acclaimed science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinatingand necessarynew science of women investigating the gender wars in biology psychology and anthropology and delving into cutting-edge studies to uncover a fascinating new portrait of women's brains bodies and role in human evolution. As Saini takes readers on a journey to uncover science's failure to understand women she finds that we're still living with the legacy of an establishment that's just beginning to recover from centuries of entrenched exclusion and prejudice.
language: English
title: Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
publisher: Beacon Press