A precise scientific exploration of the differences between boys
and girls that breaks down damaging gender stereotypes and offers
practical guidance for parents and educators.
In the past decade, we've come to accept certain ideas about the
differences between males and females--that boys can't focus in a
classroom, for instance, and that girls are obsessed with
relationships. In Pink Brain, Blue Brain, neuroscientist Lise Eliot
turns that thinking on its head. Calling on years of exhaustive
research and her own work in the field of neuroplasticity, Eliot
argues that infant brains are so malleable that small differences
at birth become amplified over time, as parents and teachers--and
the culture at large--unwittingly reinforce gender stereotypes.
Children themselves intensify the differences by playing to their
modest strengths. They constantly exercise those "ball-throwing" or
"doll-cuddling" circuits, rarely straying from their comfort zones.
But this, says Eliot, is just what they need to do, and she offers
parents and teachers concrete ways to help. Boys are not, in fact,
"better at math" but at certain kinds of spatial reasoning. Girls
are not naturally more empathetic; they're allowed to express their
feelings. By appreciating how sex differences emerge--rather than
assuming them to be fixed biological facts--we can help all
children reach their fullest potential, close the troubling gaps
between boys and girls, and ultimately end the gender wars that
currently divide us.
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