A review by rebboe
Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds by Gina Rippon

informative slow-paced

3.75

Gina Rippon’s ‘Gender and Our Brains’ dives into the word of neurosexism (a concept I found super interesting), media and self help neuro-trash, and the actual physical and hormonal analyses that exist of the human brain.

Now, I’m not a neuroscientist, and I know very little about the human brain outside a bit of mental health support stuff. That being said, some of the physical discussion around the human brain was difficult for me to keep up with. However, the social commentary was great, as well as the deeper convos on gendering things for children, self esteem, and women in STEM fields. 

We have more in common that different. We need to stop writing headlines the way we do and stop making assertions on the human experience based on mice. Interesting read!