Another review of DELUSIONS OF GENDER: Let's ask who benefits if gender is caused by nature

Cordelia Fine's new book (click for previous post ) Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference continues to enjoy a fair amount of press. Today it was reviewed in The Boston Globe. From " Skewering theories of ‘hard-wired’ gender differences ":

Fine is at her most effective when skewering those who make hay of alleged brain-based differences between men and women. After quoting an advocate of single-sex education, she addresses the reader directly, noting that “[b]y now, you will probably be uneasy about the idea that complex psychological skills like language, math, and geometry can be pinpointed to a single part of the brain.” And she’s right: Whether or not you believed in hard-wired gender differences before reading her book, it would be difficult to complete it without feeling at least a healthy skepticism about the role of biology in the way our lives play out. Fine wants you to think more deeply about whether women enter science and math less frequently than men for reasons of brain wiring or because their lived experience (and hundreds of magazines articles) have told them they’d be unhappy there. She’d like you to wonder whether women truly step off the career treadmill more frequently than men because they care less about work than about family, or whether it’s because our society is still