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Inferior
- How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.
Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes listeners on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are being rediscovered. She explores what these revelations mean for us as individuals and as a society, revealing an alternative view of science in which women are included rather than excluded.
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"An immensely readable and compelling book, providing up to date and evidence-based ammunition for readers who want to rebuff tired myths stereotyping men and women's brains and bodies." ( Professor Athene Donald)
"This is an important book, beautifully written, and with compelling narratives and hard evidence researched through the lenses of anthropology, evolutionary history, psychology, and neuroscience. The evidence for unconscious bias is undisputed - so no matter what you think you think about gender and equality - read this book." (Aarathi Prasad, author of Like a Virgin)
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- Yasmin
- 21-05-21
Insightful
A thorough look at the science around sex and gender historic and modern. Very interesting to hear about some of the research that has dominated our thinking and cultures, and the flaws and biases that underpin those studies.
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- Miss V. C. Frow
- 26-04-18
Very good
Very good. The only problem with this is that with every chapter there is a quote from other sources and with this version it is hard to see the the separation from the start of the chapter. The narrator was very easy to listen to.
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- Aija Gaizute
- 22-01-19
Book delivered what it promised
Book worth listening/reading. Explains how science got skewed view on women and what actually science says when looking at the fact that there are women and they have played important role in our evolution. Inferiority of women came from prejudice of men.
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- Grazia D'aversa
- 06-06-18
I enjoyed it
Many points to think about. what today looks obvious to us about equality and it wasn't at all only a couple of decades ago. thanks for making this.
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- Zara612
- 24-08-20
Interesting but
I really enjoyed this but I think I preferred her latest book Superior. Still recommend
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- JPM
- 01-02-19
Blooming brilliant
This is my first audible book and it was an excellent choice. I understand why other might find this sort of book “dry” but I found listening to the narrative made a boring drive to work far more interesting. There are lots of current studies and the discussion generated is interesting ad provides plenty of food for thought.
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- Florence Gschwend
- 03-09-18
Learnt a lot and loved it.
A scientific yet not too technical account of the history, biology and sociology of women (and men). Eye opening, infuriating and inspiring.
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- Gareth Lloyd
- 16-07-21
An Absolute Must!
Saini is a true scientist in every sense. Her ability to recognize our own nuanced subjectivity whilst delving deep into our muddied historical self analysis just remarkable. I hope we will one day see her Knighted (yes Knighted).
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- Alcidae
- 21-08-19
Less depressing than expected, a good listen
I've been acutely aware of sexism and bias since was very young, and as now middle-aged I don't always find it useful to get pre-occuppied with this. It's good to have the bias of much gender science taken apart though. Not all the studies with dismissive conclusions of women were definitively discredited, but at the least a degree of doubt was thrown on all mentioned. Often they were shown to have out-dated scientific methods, and worse flaws. This is science that has contributed to unconscious bias against women, in women as well as men. I hope that women may define ourselves less by some of the dubious research results produced, with, probably unconscious, but still very damaging bias. Important book. (If re-recorded in the future, my preference would have been for an older, more worldly sounding female reader. Tania Rodrigues articulated clearly but sounded consistently a bit indignant / naive.)
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- AKRai
- 20-01-21
eye opening
Great book, lots of interesting science. sometimes a bit too much detail but fascinating all the same!
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