In reality, and according to science, women actually have stronger constitutions. In the second chapter, she confronts the idea that men are stronger and more powerful than women. Saini isn’t afraid to confront long-held beliefs and long-standing science to make her claims.
We often treat our children differently from birth, as Saini asserts, “feeding our babies fantasies in pink and blue with the assumption they are deeply different.” But what if they’re not? What if women aren’t more naturally empathetic? What if men don’t have a natural superior spatial awareness? These are interesting and provocative questions, to be sure, and an argument that Saini makes convincingly in Inferior. If most of what we know about the differences between men and women is the product of bias and looking for affirmation in scientific results, then we have to reevaluate everything we thought we knew.
This, in turn again, has skewed how science looks and what it says even now.” It should come as no surprise, then, that this same scientific establishment has also painted a distorted picture of the female sex. As Saini says, “Women are so grossly underrepresented in modern science because, for most of history, they were treated as intellectual inferiors and deliberately excluded from it. They have preferences and opinions, and for the breadth of human history, have primarily been men. The problem is that the people performing science-asking the questions and interpreting the data-aren’t neutral and unbiased. Scientific evidence should speak for itself. It’s supposed to be free from bias, existing in a beautiful place where our personal beliefs and politics don’t matter.
And their wiring makes them prefer chatting over coffee and comforting others in times of distress instead of building a computer or tackling a complex science problem. Women’s brains make them better at domestic duties. But what about differences in the brain? This is where the issue gets much more dicey, as science journalist Angela Saini tackles in her book Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story.įor centuries, science has told us that there are fundamental differences between men and women when it comes to our brains or the way we’re “wired.” Men are better suited to working outside the home and doing complex jobs in STEM fields. This isn’t true of all men, of course-especially those who are born into bodies that don’t match their gender identities-but, generally, biological sexes have concrete physical differences that set them apart. When it comes to biological sex, there are generalizations made about the physical appearances of men versus women, such as the idea that male bodies usually are physically bigger, have more facial hair, are broader, and have different genitalia.
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