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Why Gender Matters
- What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A revised and updated edition (with more than 70% new material) of the classic book about innate differences between boys and girls and how best to parent and teach girls and boys successfully, with new chapters on sexual orientation and on transgender and intersex kids.
Back in 2005, the first edition of Why Gender Matters broke ground in illuminating the differences between boys and girls—how they perceive the world differently, how they learn differently, how they process emotions and take risks differently. Dr. Sax argued that in failing to recognize these hardwired differences between boys and girls, we ended up reinforcing damaging stereotypes, medicalizing misbehavior, and failing to help kids to reach their full potential. In the intervening decade, the world has changed, with an avalanche of new research which supports, deepens, and expands Dr. Sax's work. This revised and updated edition includes new findings about how boys and girls interact differently with social media and video games; a new discussion of research on gender non-conforming, LGB, and transgender kids, new findings about how girls and boys see differently, hear differently, and even smell differently; and new material about the medicalization of misbehavior.
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- Moz
- 09-02-2023
Fantastic
This is brilliant, will definitely recommend to my friends, particularly my friends who are teachers.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-06-2018
Clear, Concise. Fascinating.
Why Gender Matters is an excellent example of a book that covers a complex topic in a simplified way to make it engaging all the way through. Points are presented in a very easy to follow manner with a great mix of empirical evidence and real world examples. Narration is also very good.
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- Ben Jones
- 27-06-2019
A must read for parents and teachers
I knew from my own experiences as a child, teenager and adult that there were key differences between men and women. However, I did not realise just how different they really were. Have a read!
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- Anonymous User
- 20-12-2021
good evidence informed opinions and advices
good content and performance by this publisher. I find it interesting and valuable to suggest to educators, parents and anyone with an open mind. It's a shame that the accompanied PDF was non-existent when I was listening. I hope Audible can follow up on that.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-01-2023
A must read for every parent, leader, teacher,
I have recommended this book to more people than I can count after listening to it only this week.
The stance is politically neutral and science based.
It explained everything I assumed it would and heaps more I hadn’t even considered.
I’m glad as a parent that I read, and I’m sad as a (former) student and child that it wasn’t read by a lot of adults, teachers in my life. Amazing information.
I am an avid reader. 3-4 novels a month and this is easily one of the best books I’ve heard/read in a long time.
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- Andrew
- 16-04-2019
Intuitively true
Everything said rings true for anyone who's spent a second with people of either gender.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-07-2023
Engaging
I enjoyed listening to this book. Gave me a new perspective on gender and learned a lot
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