Inferior: The True Power of Women and the Science that Shows It

by Angela Saini

German mathematician Emmy Noether was put forward for a faculty position at the University of Göttingen during the First World War, one professor complained, ‘What will our soldiers think when they return to the university and find that they are required to learn at the feet of a woman?’

as recently as 1974 the Nobel for the discovery of pulsars wasn’t given to astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who actually made the breakthrough, but to her male supervisor.

The beautiful brain scan is not the photograph of our thoughts that it claims to be.

biology. This is well-evidenced, careful work that challenges traditional

‘Science was privileged as the knower of nature,’