Men vs Women in Science | Gina Rippon

Gender bias represents one of the major methodological problems in modern science, according to Gina Rippon. Sex affects our subjectvity, which in turn affects our science.

Gina Rippon: Science can be done in many ways, many skills are required in different disciplines, and dispositions for different skills are distributed equally between genders – ‘the mosaic brain’. (Baron-Cohen suggests science is systemising and more male, empathising is not scientific and is more female. That is a caricature of science and a gross simplification of gender.)

Gina Rippon: Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Center. Rippon is a fierce critic of claims that there are sex-based brain differences, and is working on a book on the topic.

[sociobiologist]

5:00 Oh no, scientists feel more comfortable challenging shibboleths! Pass the smelling salts!

[CCVP]

Wanna hear a joke? "Feminist science".