""The Sexual Paradox" highlights some central puzzles about
exceptional men and women. Why did Einstein never complete his PhD?
Or Cavendish, Farraday, Darwin, and Bill Gates never complete their
degrees or even drop out of university? And why do high-flying
business women not behave like their male counterparts? Susan
Pinker's wide-ranging look at the nature of the sexes is a highly
readable and welcome contribution to this perennial debate."--
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge University, author of "The
Essential Difference"
"All these many years of running a business, I thought I was an
anomaly. Susan Pinker's work has grounded my intuitions in reality:
a woman's success is going to knock the spiritual stuffing right
out of her if she tries to come at it from traditional angles.
Instead she must invent a workplace that not only provides food for
the table but gives social and emotional meaning to her life. Susan
Pinker helps you understand that it's not you that's crazy, it's
the system."-- Margot Franssen, social activist and co-founder of
The Body Shop Canada
"Fascinating, insightful and deeply captivating. Every thinking man
and woman should read this book."-- Louann Brizendine, M.D., author
of "The Female Brain"
"In this marvelous book, Susan Pinker presents a fascinating
analysis of "the gender gap," introducing a continuous flow of
exciting ideas and new insights into old problems and
controversies. It's a pleasure to read a book that is so
informative and entertaining about a complex topic that is rarely
examined, as it is here, from all points of view." -- Ron Melzack,
E.P. Taylor Professor Emeritus, in the Department of Psychology,
McGill University
"Pinker crafts a biologically based and sure-to-be-controversial
examination of sex differences between "fragile men" and gifted
women who opt out of successful careers. A valuable demonstration
of how discounting biology during the last 40 years has done a
disservice, especially to men." -- "Kirkus"
"Presented with flair, sensitivity, and determination, Pinker's
penetrating conclusions shed important new light on how gender
differences affect every strata of contemporary existence." --
"Booklist"
"Susan Pinker's "The Sexual Paradox" is meticulously researched,
brilliantly argued and thoroughly persuasive. It moves the debate
over sex differences to a new level of sophistication." --
Christina Hoff Sommers, author of "Who Stole Feminism?" and "The
War Against Boys"
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