The Real Gender Gap in Heart Disease
Men have been dying at higher rates than women over time, and the gap appears to be constant.
Anish Koka
· 9 min read
Sex Differences
A collection of 24 posts
A Girl’s Place in the World
Men (and, less often, women as well) across societies all over the world have used violence in an attempt to control women’s reproductive outcomes and limit the choices available to them, and in many circumstances, men have benefited from doing so.
William Buckner
· 15 min read
Sex, Love, and Knowing the Difference
There are biological reasons that explain why the experience of being in love feels so overwhelming.
Debra Soh
· 6 min read
Alessandro Strumia: Another Politically-Correct Witch-Hunt, or a More Complicated Story?
Hossenfelder—who believes women in science are still held back by sexist cultural biases but also opposes preferential treatment as a shortcut to equality—is a welcome exception.
Cathy Young
· 12 min read
Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?
Proposing that some gender imbalances in fields like physics might not be due to discrimination is like being a social scientist in the Soviet Union and proposing that some class differences aren’t due to discrimination.
Alessandro Strumia
· 14 min read
From Hegemonic to Responsive Masculinity: the Transformative Power of the Provider Role
There is little evidence to justify why the provider role has been held in such low regard.
Belinda Brown
· 11 min read
What Explains the Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology?
Instead of dispassionately inquiring into scientific questions, facts from politically controversial research are being distorted out of concern for how the data might be used by the worst among us.
Alex Mackiel
· 19 min read
Sex Differences, Gender, and Competitive Sport
What are the physiological and anatomical differences between men and women that affect performance?
Andrew Langford
· 13 min read
Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences
No one seems to have a problem accepting that, on average, male and female bodies differ in many, many ways. Why is it surprising or unacceptable that this is true for the part of our body that we call “brain”?
Larry Cahill
· 11 min read