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Do men and women have different brains?

In this article by Lise Eliot, she discusses the myth that men and women have different brains and the publication "The Gendered Brain" by cognitive neuroscientist Gina Rippon.


Rippon is a leading voice against the bad neuroscience of sex differences. The book debunks the concept of a gendered brain. She analyses numerous studies, looks at the history of bias and the cultural impact of a gendered world, revealing that the brain is no more gendered than the liver or kidneys or heart.


Most of us remain strapped in the “biosocial straitjackets” that divert a basically unisex brain down one culturally gendered pathway or another.

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