Sentences with phrase «innate gender difference»

Not exact matches

Is it the case that you do think there are innate gender / sex differences and those are what don't feel like they fit, or is it more the case that, due to social constructions of gender, you don't feel as though you fit what a man is supposed to be and / or you feel more comfortable with female gender characteristics (and, of course, it may be some combination of both)?

From Carrie: As someone who isn't convinced that there are innate gender characteristics (although I do, of course, recognize biological differences and see how those might affect identity), I have trouble distinguishing how a transgender person conceives of her gender identity.

«If you look at things Summers's way,» she says in her office, leaning forward in her chair with a sly grin, «then to study innate cognitive abilities, like I do, is supposedly to study gender differences.

It is difficult to tell whether these brain differences are innate causes of feelings of discomfort towards gendered body parts, or whether a trans person's aversion to a body part could have caused changes like these to occur in the brain over time.

Four years ago, when Lawrence Summers suggested that the scarcity of prominent female scientists and engineers was in part because there are fewer women on the extremes of the range of innate math ability — fewer geniuses and fewer duds — he stirred up a lot of misguided arguments about gender differences in the brain.