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Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap
Scribner
March 2008
On Sale: March 11, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 0743284704
EAN: 9780743284707
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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. Pinker examines how fundamental sex
differences play out over the life span. 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. In lively prose, Pinker guides readers
through the latest findings in neuroscience and economics
while addressing these questions: Are males the more fragile
sex? What do men with Asperger syndrome or dyslexia tell us
about more average men? Which sex is the happiest at work?
Why do some male college dropouts earn more than the bright
girls who sat beside them in third grade? After three
decades of women's educational coups, why do men outnumber
women in corporate law, engineering, physical science, and
politics? The answers to these questions are the opposite of
what we expect. A provocative examination of how and
why learning and behavioral gaps in the nursery are reversed
in the boardroom, this illuminating book reveals how sex
differences influence career choices and ambition. Through
the stories of real men and women, science, and examples
from popular culture, Susan Pinker takes a new look at the
differences between women and men.
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