"Pink Brain, Blue Brain"
A new book on what the research on brain-based sex difference actually shows between girls and boys
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | 5:49 pm
Forget everything you've learned about the developmental differences between boy brains and girls brains.
Here comes a new manifesto on the topic, at least according to a review in the
Washington Post by Emily Bazelon, editor of Double X, Slate's Women's Web site.
Bazelon reviewed the book “Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- and What We Can Do About It,” by By Lise Eliot ($25. 420 pages. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Calling the book masterful with eye-opening studies, Bazelon said Eliot concludes that parents of girls consistently underestimate their daughters' aptitude, whether it's doing math or crawling up a slope.
Eliot's contribution to society is “to explain, clearly and authoritatively, what the research on brain-based sex difference actually shows, and to offer helpful suggestions about how we can erase the small gaps for our children instead of turning them into larger ones," Bazelon writes.
The author shows parents how to help boys express feelings and how to help girls do well in math and read a map, among other things.
Bazelon promises that Eliot, a neuroscientist at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, will be your new favorite expert.
Here comes a new manifesto on the topic, at least according to a review in the
Washington Post by Emily Bazelon, editor of Double X, Slate's Women's Web site.
Bazelon reviewed the book “Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- and What We Can Do About It,” by By Lise Eliot ($25. 420 pages. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Calling the book masterful with eye-opening studies, Bazelon said Eliot concludes that parents of girls consistently underestimate their daughters' aptitude, whether it's doing math or crawling up a slope.
Eliot's contribution to society is “to explain, clearly and authoritatively, what the research on brain-based sex difference actually shows, and to offer helpful suggestions about how we can erase the small gaps for our children instead of turning them into larger ones," Bazelon writes.
The author shows parents how to help boys express feelings and how to help girls do well in math and read a map, among other things.
Bazelon promises that Eliot, a neuroscientist at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, will be your new favorite expert.
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