![]() I think what’s changing in researching gender and biological sex is that for a long time you needed to have two parallel streams of research. What makes us different, biological or social factors? I would like to start with a recurring question when we deal with differences between men and women. Professor Fine participated in ESOF 2014, the European science conference that took place this year in Copenhagen, and we could talk to her about neurosexism, women and science. In the paper, she proves how easy it is to find newly published books defending sex-difference through neuroscientific aspects, and how the media reproduce the same patterns. ![]() The last of them was published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. That might somewhat explain the poor presence of women in high-level research positions (only 20%) in Spain, as recently published by Materia.Ĭordelia Fine, professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne (Australia), published Delusions of Gender in 2011, in which she delved in the issues around neurosexism, a theme she has also researched in different academic papers. ![]() ![]() That’s how professor Cordelia Fine describes «neurosexism», a term referring to the use of neuroscience to justify traditional gender role models, models that do not include the stereotype of the female scientist. ![]()
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