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Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps — and What We Can Do About It
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Lise Eliot

Elaine Nelson's review

Apr 20, 2010

really liked it

bookshelves: non-fiction, psychology, health, science, sociology, gender

Great review of all the science on gender differences in children, and how our gendered society conflates tiny differences into separate childhood cultures. On a practical level, each chapter includes how to compensate for the weaknesses and use the strengths that do have a genetic component. (She has 3 kids, by the way, 2 boys and a girl, and uses them as anecdotes from time to time.)

If you have ever gnashed your teeth walking through a Toys R Us, this book is for you.

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