Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
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Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
Recognize that our differences contribute to our collective strength. If we more highly valued work that women are more likely to be drawn to (e.g., teaching, social work, nursing), perhaps we could stop demanding equal representation of men and women in fields that women are simply not as likely to be interested in. Recognizing that we are, on ave
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If one wishes to argue that men and women do not fit neatly into boxes—and therefore should not be limited by the traits, abilities, and roles traditionally assigned to their sex—one can use science to show that they do not and liberalism to argue that they should not, and reason will employ the former in the service of the latter. An understanding
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
But women also possessed an organ of the highest biological – and social – value: the uterus. Possession of this organ defined the purpose of women: to bear and raise children. Knowledge about female biology centred around women’s capacity – and duty – to reproduce. Being biologically female defined and constrained what it meant to be a woman. And
... See moreElinor Cleghorn • Unwell Women
Or even setting abortion aside, you’d think longtermists might express concern about the decline in fertility in industrialized countries, a question that some rationalists like Hanson have explored but EAs—80 percent of whom are childless, according to Alexander’s survey[*23]—rarely do, perhaps because it codes as conservative. At other times, tho
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