My guests are psychologist Dr Cordelia Fine, her new book is called Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences.

Welcome to All in the Mind on ABC Radio National with me Natasha Mitchell. Natasha Mitchell: Look, it's a scientific debate to rival climate change, how our sex shapes our brain and our behaviour. This topic matters and we should be doing it better. Well that's absolutely not true, it's not about political correctness, this is actually about scientific correctness.

There's always the accusation that we don't want to accept the scientific data for political reasons. And it's not grounded in good science, unfortunately. When the umbilical cord is cut as the children leave home, the mommy brain circuits are finally free to be applied to new ambitions, new thoughts, new ideas.Ĭordelia Fine: When you have a sort of 'essential difference' account of the sexes, that we're sort of biologically inevitably different, it does make us feel more relaxed about sex discrimination makes us feel that, you know, the status quo is inevitable and so on it does sort of encourage complacency and let us off the hook. : Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion while men have a small country road. The woman, psychiatrist Louann Brizendine in her bestselling book The Female Brain. They excel in fickleness, inconstancy, absence of thought and logic, and incapacity to reason. All psychologists who have studied the intelligence of women, as well as poets and novelists, recognise today that they represent the most inferior forms of human evolution and that they are closer to children and savages than to an adult, civilised male. This inferiority is so obvious that no one can contest it for a moment only its degree is worth discussion. : In the most intelligent races there are a large number of women whose brains are closer in size to those of gorillas than to the most developed male brains. Natasha Mitchell: The year is 1879, the man Gustave Le Bon, a founder of social psychology.

Delusions of gender