“A sociocultural environment is not some cunningly contrived thing only exists in social psychology labs. Don't look now, but you're in one right this moment.”
Cordelia Fine“No doubt the female self and the male self can be as useful as any other social identity in the right circumstances. But flexible, context-sensitive, and useful is not the same as “hardwired”.”
Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference“As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women.”
Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference“A sociocultural environment is not some cunningly contrived thing only exists in social psychology labs. Don't look now, but you're in one right this moment.”
Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference“While parenthood served as no disadvantage at all to men, there was evidence of a substantial "motherhood penalty". Mothers received only half as many callbacks as their identically qualified childless counterparts.”
Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference“blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.”
Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference