As a result, these women have fewer same-gender role models. “Women who are invested in masculine domains,” she writes, “often have to perform in the unpleasant and unrewarding atmosphere created by stereotype threat.” This threat not only impairs performance, but also decreases the interest in cross-gender activities. She effectively blows the lid off of old tropes, examining, for instance, the challenges facing women who pursue careers in science and engineering. Though sex-based judgments are ostensibly archaic, at least in the context of latter-day generalizations, the author combs through the pervasive discrepancies and claims made, differentiating between the way we are born and how patterns of behavior and thought processes are affected by cultural rules. Fine ( A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives, 2006) unpacks the myths surrounding differences between male and female brains.
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