Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

by Angela Saini

men have more connections within the left and right halves of their brain, while women have more connections between the two of halves of their brain.

In her 2010 book Delusions of Gender, psychologist Cordelia Fine coins the term “neurosexism” to describe scientific studies that fall back on gender stereotypes,

“Man is himself a problem in search of a solution,” he writes. “When men understand that the best way to solve their own problem is to help women solve those that men have created for women, they will have taken one of the first significant steps toward its solution. . . . The truth will make men free as well as women.”