But it’s worth considering philosopher Neil Levy’s argument that the idea that women are predominantly hardwired for empathising while men are hardwired for systemising ‘is no basis for equality. It is not an accident that there is no Nobel Prize for making people feel included.’2 When a child clings on to a highly desirable toy and claims that his companion ‘doesn’t want to play with it’, I have found that it is wise to be suspicious. The same scepticism can be usefully applied here.
