For Gina Rippon, this has become a tiresome battle. “There are people like Larry Cahill who call us ‘sex difference deniers,’ but it’s the same kind of attack that gets put on feminism at each stage, or whatever wave you think you’re in,” she tells me. “I’m not paranoid or a conspiracy theorist, but there is a very strong, quite powerful backlash in this area. It’s kind of acceptable in an odd way, which is not true if you’re talking about race or religion.” As someone outspoken about sexism in science, she occasionally receives misogynistic e-mails from men who disagree with her. The worst
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