Pink brain, blue brain : how small differences grow into trouplesome gaps--and what we can do about it
Title:
Pink brain, blue brain : how small differences grow into trouplesome gaps--and what we can do about it
Author:
Eliot, Lise.
ISBN:
9780618393114
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Physical Description:
ix, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Pink and blue in the womb -- Under the pink or blue blankie -- Learning through play in the preschool years -- Starting school -- The wonder of words -- Sex, math, and science -- Love and war -- Truce time.
Abstract:
A neuroscientist shatters the myths about gender differences, arguing that the brains of boys and girls are largely shaped by how they spend their time, and offers parents and teachers concrete ways to avoid reinforcing harmful stereotypes.
