Australian Financial Review, March 22 2011
Fiona Smith
Men and women more alike than you think
Since the cradle, we’ve been schooled in the ways of pink and blue. We are told that men are the solo, Rambo-style leaders, while women are the mother hens. Men compartmentalise while women multi-task. Boys are better at maths, girls at English. But what if this is all rubbish? What if we are expecting people to conform to stereotypes that have no basis in fact? Increasing numbers of researchers are stepping forward to tell us that most of what we thought we knew on the subject of gender is wrong.
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