Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences - Softcover

Sax, Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767916255 ISBN 13: 9780767916257

Verlag: BROADWAY BOOKS, 2006

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""Why Gender Matters is a fabulous resource for teachers and parents. Dr. Sax combines his extensive knowledge of the research on gender issues with practical advice in cogent, highly readable prose. I am eager to have my colleagues at school read this book and discuss it!" --Martha Cutts, Director of Upper School, National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C.
"In this reader-friendly book, Dr. Sax combines his comprehensive knowledge of the scientific literature with numerous interesting case studies to argue for his thesis that single-sex education is advantageous." --Dr. Sandra Witelson, Albert Einstein/Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience, McMaster University
"Extremely interesting . . . Challenged many of my basic assumptions and helped me to think about gender in a new way." --Joan Ogilvy Holden, Head of School, St. Stephen's School, Alexandria, Virginia

""Why Gender Matters" is a fabulous resource for teachers and parents. Dr. Sax combines his extensive knowledge of the research on gender issues with practical advice in cogent, highly readable prose. I am eager to have my colleagues at school read this book and discuss it!" --Martha Cutts, Director of Upper School, National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C.
"In this reader-friendly book, Dr. Sax combines his comprehensive knowledge of the scientific literature with numerous interesting case studies to argue for his thesis that single-sex education is advantageous." --Dr. Sandra Witelson, Albert Einstein/Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience, McMaster University
"Extremely interesting . . . Challenged many of my basic assumptions and helped me to think about gender in a new way." --Joan Ogilvy Holden, Head of School, St. Stephen's School, Alexandria, Virginia

..."a lucid guide to male and female brain differences." --" "David Brooks, "The New York Times"
""Why Gender Matters" is a fabulous resource for teachers and parents. Dr. Sax combines his extensive knowledge of the research on gender issues with practical advice in cogent, highly readable prose. I am eager to have my colleagues at school read this book and discuss it!" --Martha Cutts, Director of Upper School, National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C.
"In this reader-friendly book, Dr. Sax combines his comprehensive knowledge of the scientific literature with numerous interesting case studies to argue for his thesis that single-sex education is advantageous." --Dr. Sandra Witelson, Albert Einstein/Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience, McMaster University
"Extremely interesting . . . Challenged many of my basic assumptions and helped me to think about gender in a new way." --Joan Ogilvy Holden, Head of School, St. Stephen's School, Alexandria, Virginia

.,."a lucid guide to male and female brain differences." --" "David Brooks, "The New York Times"
""Why Gender Matters" is a fabulous resource for teachers and parents. Dr. Sax combines his extensive knowledge of the research on gender issues with practical advice in cogent, highly readable prose. I am eager to have my colleagues at school read this book and discuss it!" --Martha Cutts, Director of Upper School, National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C.
"In this reader-friendly book, Dr. Sax combines his comprehensive knowledge of the scientific literature with numerous interesting case studies to argue for his thesis that single-sex education is advantageous." --Dr. Sandra Witelson, Albert Einstein/Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience, McMaster University
"Extremely interesting . . . Challenged many of my basic assumptions and helped me to think about gender in a new way." --Joan Ogilvy Holden, Head of School, St. Stephen's School, Alexandria, Virginia

."..a lucid guide to male and female brain differences." --""David Brooks, "The New York Times"

""Why Gender Matters" is a fabulous resource for teachers and parents. Dr. Sax combines his extensive knowledge of the research on gender issues with practical advice in cogent, highly readable prose. I am eager to have my colleagues at school read this book and discuss it!" --Martha Cutts, Director of Upper School, National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C.

"In this reader-friendly book, Dr. Sax combines his comprehensive knowledge of the scientific literature with numerous interesting case studies to argue for his thesis that single-sex education is advantageous." --Dr. Sandra Witelson, Albert Einstein/Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience, McMaster University

"Extremely interesting . . . Challenged many of my basic assumptions and helped me to think about gender in a new way." --Joan Ogilvy Holden, Head of School, St. Stephen's School, Alexandria, Virginia

..".a lucid guide to male and female brain differences." David Brooks, The New York Times
Why Gender Matters is a fabulous resource for teachers and parents. Dr. Sax combines his extensive knowledge of the research on gender issues with practical advice in cogent, highly readable prose. I am eager to have my colleagues at school read this book and discuss it! Martha Cutts, Director of Upper School, National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C.
In this reader-friendly book, Dr. Sax combines his comprehensive knowledge of the scientific literature with numerous interesting case studies to argue for his thesis that single-sex education is advantageous. Dr. Sandra Witelson, Albert Einstein/Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience, McMaster University
Extremely interesting . . . Challenged many of my basic assumptions and helped me to think about gender in a new way. Joan Ogilvy Holden, Head of School, St. Stephen s School, Alexandria, Virginia"

-...a lucid guide to male and female brain differences.- -- David Brooks, The New York Times
-Why Gender Matters is a fabulous resource for teachers and parents. Dr. Sax combines his extensive knowledge of the research on gender issues with practical advice in cogent, highly readable prose. I am eager to have my colleagues at school read this book and discuss it!- --Martha Cutts, Director of Upper School, National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C.
-In this reader-friendly book, Dr. Sax combines his comprehensive knowledge of the scientific literature with numerous interesting case studies to argue for his thesis that single-sex education is advantageous.- --Dr. Sandra Witelson, Albert Einstein/Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience, McMaster University
-Extremely interesting . . . Challenged many of my basic assumptions and helped me to think about gender in a new way.- --Joan Ogilvy Holden, Head of School, St. Stephen's School, Alexandria, Virginia

Reseña del editor

A noted pediatrician and child psychologist looks at the controversial question of biologically based gender differences, arguing that these variations are a biological reality and that they play a key role in the development of personality traits and intellectual and social skills. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BROADWAY BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0767916255
• ISBN 13: 9780767916257
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336