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By (author) Fine Cordelia
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Award-winning scientist and philosopher Cordelia Fine
provides a sharp and clear-eyed analysis of how the gendered division of labour is built and why it persists.
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”Excellent and incredibly timely” Caroline Criado-Perez, author of Invisible Women
”You should read this book” Philippa Gregory
The most lucrative industries are male-dominated – yet half of men think they”re the ones being discriminated against.
Post #MeToo, we”re all committed to stamping out sexual harassment – but not to changing the conditions that foster it.
Women work more hours than men and accumulate less wealth – while many children want more time with their dad.
Inequality in the workplace impacts all areas of our lives, from health and self-development to economic security and family life. But, despite the world”s richest countries” long-avowed commitments to gender equality, there is still so much to fix – and so much we don”t see.
With perceptive and razor-sharp insight, award-winning author Cordelia Fine reveals how the status quo – Patriarchy Inc. – is harming us all, in our working lives and beyond. Drawing on social and cultural history, examples from hunter-forager societies to high finance and the latest thinking in evolutionary science, she dismantles the existing, inadequate visions for gender equality and charts an inspiring path towards a fairer and freer society.
Table of contents:
1: Divisions 2: Sex and Status 3: (Re)producing Fathers 4: Beyond Market-Thinking 5: Border Control 6: Differences 7: Girl, Uninterrupted? 8: From Equality to DEI 9: A New Vision
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If you are a woman and have ever been trapped in a monologue with a man telling you about your “female nature”- you should read this book. If you are that man – I dare you to read it. If you are neither,you will love this book which shows that we have all been defined against the core of our true natures, and invites us to think again about what we might be and how we might live.
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Combining feminist economics with a close analysis of scientific “justifications” for inequality,
Fine offers fascinating, convincing answers to the question of why, if some women have so much choice and DEI initiatives are so widespread, men retain so much dominance in the workplace. As in Delusions of Gender and Testosterone Rex, complex ideas are delivered clearly and wittily, with the author once again unafraid to tackle research into sex differences that feminists are supposedly unable or unwilling to deal with.
Both entertaining and enraging, this is a brilliant resource for any woman who has been told “it”s not really a gender pay gap” or been faced with inclusion policies which tell her she”s the one in need of fixing.
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Delusions of Gender skewered neurosexism. Testosterone Rex punctured inflated claims about the hormonal basis of gender. With Patriarchy Inc. Cordelia Fine now turns her fierce intelligence and wit to the world of work. The idea that men and women are different-but-equal is unmasked as naïve about the origins of sex differences and complacent about enduring inequities. The rival idea that diversity, equity, and inclusion are good for the bottom line is also pulled apart, shown to be driven by considerations of market value rather than human welfare or fairness.
With her trademark command of theory, marshalling of social scientific evidence, and ear for le mot juste, Fine makes a powerful case for a new approach to gender in the workplace, one that would make work fairer, more secure, and more rewarding for all of us.
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