![]() ![]() It makes a great follow-up to Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender, which addressed similar topics with a specific focus on neurosexism. While I do not think we necessarily need a biological argument to fight for women's advancement (i.e., cancer can be perceived as "natural" and we fight it anyway), Inferior does advance the discourse surrounding gendered discrimination in science in meaningful ways. Overall, I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to everyone, in particular to those interested in science, feminism, and the production of knowledge. She sheds light on new research that seeks to understand gender and sex from more nuanced, feminist, and holistic perspectives. Saini discusses an array of ways in which this inaccurate idea of female inferiority came to popularity: research journals favoring studies that show differences over studies that show similarities, scientific findings that fail to take into account culture and patriarchy, sexism in research labs and universities, and more. She uses a thorough understanding of science and a fine eye for detail to reveal how many of these perceived sex differences were actually the product of biased researchers or flawed studies. With great diligence, Angela Saini combs through decades and decades of research that tried to show how women are worse than men in several areas, ranging from intelligence to aptitude for work to physical health. ![]() A powerful book that pierces through the notion that women are biologically inferior to men. ![]()
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