BookThe Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap takes a hard look at how fundamental sex differences play out in the workplace. By comparing fragile boys who later succeed, with high achieving women who opt out, Susan Pinker turns several assumptions upside down: that the sexes are biologically equivalent, that smarts are all it takes to succeed and that men and women have identical interests and goals. After decades of women's educational coups and rising through the ranks, men still outnumber women in business, physical science, law, engineering and politics. In explaining this ratio, Pinker’s controversial stance is that discrimination plays just a bit part. If the majority of children with school and behavioral problems are boys, then why do so many overcome early obstacles, while rafts of high achieving women choose jobs that pay less or opt out at pivotal moments in their careers?
A provocative examination of how and why learning and behavioral gaps in the nursery are reversed in the boardroom, The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap reveals how sex differences influence ambition and success. Through real men’s and women’s stories, combined with research evidence and examples from popular culture, Susan Pinker examines how weaknesses can become strengths, and why early achievements do not automatically translate into standard career triumphs.
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"Susan Pinker's The Sexual Paradox is meticulously researched, brilliantly argued and thoroughly persuasive. It moves the debate over sex differences to a new level of sophistication." ‹ CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS, author of The War against Boys
"The Sexual Paradox highlights some central puzzles about exceptional men and women. Why did Einstein never complete his PhD? Or Cavendish, Faraday, Darwin, and Bill Gates never complete their degrees or even drop out of university? And why do high-flying business women not behave like their male counterparts? Susan Pinker's wide-ranging look at the nature of the sexes is a highly readable and welcome contribution to this perennial debate." ‹ PROFESSOR SIMON BARON-COHEN, Cambridge University, author of The Essential Difference
"Fascinating, insightful and deeply captivating. Every thinking man and woman should read this book." ‹ LOUANN BRIZENDINE, M.D. --author of "The Female Brain"
"In this marvelous book, Susan Pinker presents a fascinating analysis of "the gender gap," introducing a continuous flow of exciting ideas and new insights into old problems and controversies. It's a pleasure to read a book that is so informative and entertaining about a complex topic that is rarely examined, as it is here, from all points of view." ‹ RONALD MELZACK, E.P. Taylor Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, McGill University, and author of The Puzzle of Pain.
"The Sexual Paradox is a page turner a fascinating account of sex differences exemplified by real life stories of fragile boys who later succeed and gifted, early-performing girls who eventually opt out of the career track, with interpretations based on current neuroscience research." ‹ SANDRA F. WITELSON, Ph.D., Albert Einstein/Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
“All these many years of running a business, I thought I was an anomaly. Susan Pinker’s work has grounded my intuitions in reality: a woman’s success is going to knock the spiritual stuffing right out of her if she tries to come at it from traditional angles. Instead she must invent a workplace that not only provides food for the table but gives social and emotional meaning to her life. Susan Pinker helps you understand that it’s not you that’s crazy, it’s the system.” ‹ MARGOT FRANSSEN, social activist and co-founder of The Body Shop Canada
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| Canada: | Random House, February 2008 |
| US: | Scribner, March 2008 |
| France: | Editions Les Arènes, April 2008 |
| French Canada: | Transcontinental, April 2008 |
| UK: | Atlantic Books, April 2008 |
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