Cordelia Fine Quotes

#1. 0Cross-gender behaviour is seen as less acceptable in boys than it is in girls: unlike the term 'tomboy' there is nothing positive implied by its male counterpart, the 'sissy'.

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#2. the greater the gender equity of a country, the smaller the gender gap in the importance of the financial resources of a partner (as well as in the importance of other preferences, like chastity and good looks).36

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#3. Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

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#4. Boys do not pursue mathematical activities at a higher rate than girls do because they are better at mathematics. They do so, at least partially, because they think they are better.

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#5. Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn't predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.

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#6. Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.

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#7. An interest in Star Trek and an antisocial lifestyle may not, in fact, be unassailable correlates of talent in computer programming.

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#8. My husband would probably like you to know that, for the sake of my research for this chapter, he has had to put up with an awful lot of contemptuous snorting.

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#9. A member of my family, who shall remain nameless, refers to all newborns as 'blobs'.

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#10. The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.

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#11. A sociocultural environment is not some cunningly contrived thing only exists in social psychology labs. Don't look now, but you're in one right this moment.

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#12. While parenthood served as no disadvantage at all to men, there was evidence of a substantial "motherhood penalty". Mothers received only half as many callbacks as their identically qualified childless counterparts.

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#13. Blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

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#14. Neurosexism promotes damaging, limiting, potentially self-fulfilling stereotypes. Three years ago, I discovered my son's kindergarten teacher reading a book that claimed that his brain was incapable of forging the connection between emotion and language. And so I decided to write this book.

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#15. As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women.

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