‘gender differences fall on a continuum, not into two separate buckets’. ‘I think that people tend to think of this in an either–or kind of way,’ agrees Teodora Gliga. Either girls and boys are born very different, or they’re the same. The scientific picture emerging now is that there may be very small biological differences, but that these can get so easily reinforced by society that they appear much bigger as a child grows. ‘My opinion is that you will find differences wherever they were reinforced, because we love categories … we need to have categories. And so once we’ve decided, once
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