Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story

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What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew.For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feeble, their role subservient. Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades scientists–primarily men–found evidence to support his claim.
In Inferior, acclaimed science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating–and sorely necessary–new science of women. Saini takes readers on a journey to uncover science’s failure to understand women, and delves into the fascinating new science rediscovering their bodies and minds in biology, psychology, and anthropology.