By comparing fragile boys who succeed later with high-achieving women who opt out or plateau in their careers, Pinker turns several assumptions upside down: that women and men are biologically equivalent, that intelligence is all it takes to succeed, and that women are just versions of men, with identical interests and goals. Pinker examines how fundamental sex differences play out over the life span. The publicity the book has received, however, derives less from its style than its message.' - Anne Campbell, New Scientist.Susan Pinker, psychologist and award-winning columnist, has written a groundbreaking and controversial book that reveals why learning and behavioral gaps between boys and girls in the classroom are reversed in the workplace. ' delivers a well-referenced summary of the most up-to-date psychological research and social statistics in a cheerful style.Pinker dares to posit the idea that women don't have the same preferences as men and therefore, might actually choose different paths, not be forced into them by the patriarchy.' - Rebecca L. 'Pinker throws out the question of why women may or may not be allowed to be equal to men and posits a different one: why on earth do men get to be the standard? Why should females have the goal of meeting the male standard? This in itself denigrates females.

But that doesn't mean we should settle for the reductionist version of the relevant science, even if the complexity doesn't make for as neat a package between hard covers.' - Emily Bazelon, The New York Times.

'We shouldn't wish the role of sex differences away because they're at odds with feminist dogma.

'The puzzle is why the idea of sex differences continues to be so controversial.' (Quoted in Brazelon.).

They particularly dominate in national government, the corporate boardroom and the science laboratory.') Once they move from school to work, men on average earn more money and run more shows. Bazelon goes on to note: 'And yet, of course, it is not.

the world would be a matriarchy.' (Quoted in Emily Bazelon's New York Times review. 'If you were to predict the future on the basis of school achievement alone.

The Sexual Paradox by Susan Pinker