Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Woman’s Inferiority to Man
CHAPTER 2
Females Get Sicker but Males Die Quicker
CHAPTER 3
A Difference at Birth
CHAPTER 4
The Missing Five Ounces of the Female Brain
CHAPTER 5
Women’s Work
CHAPTER 6
Choosy, Not Chaste
CHAPTER 7
Why Men Dominate
CHAPTER 8
The Old Women Who Wouldn’t Die
Afterword
Acknowledgments
References
Index
Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist whose print and broadcast work has appeared on the BBC and in the Guardian, New Scientist, Wired, the Economist, and Science. A former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Kavli Science Journalism gold award in 2015. Saini has a master’s in engineering from Oxford University, and she is the author of Geek Nation: How Indian Science Is Taking Over the World.
“A brilliant approach to a long overlooked topic, Inferior is
impossible to ignore and invaluable.”
—Booklist
“The Enlightenment brought revolutions in science, philosophy and
art while ushering in respect for human reason over religious
faith. But the era also created a narrative about women—that they
are intellectually inferior to men. Indeed, science itself is an
establishment rooted in exclusion, writes science journalist Saini,
citing a long history of unrecognized achievement by women
scientists: Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin and Emmy Noether, to
name a few. The process of science is also riddled with inherent
biases that have done nothing to improve society’s views of women.
Neurosexism, for example, is a term that describes scientific
studies that fall back on gender stereotypes. New science and
awareness are overturning a great deal of flawed thinking, as Saini
shows, but there is still a long way to go.”
—Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American
“In this smart, balanced, and wonderfully readable book, Angela
Saini breaks the vicious cycle by which women, having been excluded
from the sciences by men who assumed them to be inferior, were
judged by those same male scientists to be inferior. Study by
study, she objectively reexamines what we think we know about the
supposed differences between the sexes. If you have ever been
shouted down by a male colleague who insists that science has
proven women to be biologically inferior to men, here are the
arguments you need to demonstrate that he doesn’t know what he is
talking about.”
—Eileen Pollack, author of The Only Woman in the Room
“Angela Saini’s Inferior proves the opposite of its title. It is a
lively, well-written, informed account of women’s proven powers.
She shows that science, long used as a weapon against women, is
today an ally in their steady advance. Inferior is another nail in
the coffin of male supremacy.”
—Melvin Konner, author of Women After All
“This is an important book that I hope will be widely read. Any
time biases are identified and corrected for, it is science and
policymaking rather than feminism or any particular ideology that
comes out ahead.”
—Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of The Woman That Never Evolved, Mother
Nature, and Mothers and Others
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