Darwin Was Sexist, and So Are Many Modern Scientists

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu>
> Subject: Darwin Was Sexist, and So Are Many Modern Scientists
> Date: December 18, 2017 at 10:11:59 AM EST
> To: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>
> Cc: John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu>
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> Dave, thought your list might find this column interesting. John Horgan
>
> Darwin Was Sexist, and So Are Many Modern Scientists
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> For too long, Darwinian theory has justified sexist attitudes and behavior.​
>  
>  Is science sexist? Of course it is, in two ways. First, women in science (including engineering, math, medicine) 
> face discrimination, harassment and other forms of maltreatment from men. Second, male scientists portray females as 
> males’ intellectual inferiors. These two forms of sexism are mutually reinforcing. That is, male scientists use 
> science to justify their sexist attitudes toward and maltreatment of women. Then, when women fail to thrive, the men 
> say, See? Women just aren’t our equals.
>  
> In her important, timely new book Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the 
> Story <https://www.amazon.com/Inferior-Science-Wrong-Research-Rewriting/dp/0807071706>, British science journalist 
> Angela Saini documents how science has long denigrated females. In his 1871 book The Descent of Man Charles Darwin 
> wrote <https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/darwin-damore-how-modern-science-failed-women-ncna801586>: “The chief 
> distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is [shown] by man attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever 
> he takes up, than woman can attain--whether requiring deep thought, reason or imagination, or merely the use of the 
> senses and hands.” He added, “Thus man has ultimately become superior to woman.”...
>  
> For more go to https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/darwin-was-sexist-and-so-are-many-modern-scientists/ 
> <https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/darwin-was-sexist-and-so-are-many-modern-scientists/>



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