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Join us as we discuss Fine's book and her insights into how workplace structures continue to privilege men, why post-MeToo efforts have failed to create lasting change, and what genuine equality for all might look like.
Speakers: • Cordelia Fine, Award-winning author of Testosterone Rex and Delusions of Gender • Jeremy Davies, Deputy CEO and Head of Impact & Communications, Fatherhood Institute • Aneeta Rattan, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School • Alexandra Topping, Senior News Reporter, The Guardian • Heejung Chung (Chair), Professor of Work and Employment, King's College London and Director, the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership |
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"What are the roles of biology and social factors in the development of psychological differences between girls and boys, women and men? What is the best way to understand those differences from a scientific standpoint? ..The goal is to raise and anwer questions of all kinds, to further in-depth dialogue across disciplinary boundaries, and to facilitate progress on all sides of the issue."
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"In both [Australian and Denmark], gender essentialism was associated with anti-egalitarian gender attitudes and beliefs, independently of political orientation and general acceptance of social hierarchy. In other words, gender essentialists don’t oppose gender equality simply because they are conservative or generically anti-egalitarian." (With Nick Haslam, on Skewes, Fine & Haslam, 2018, PLOS One).
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"The latest neuroscience study of sex differences to hit the popular press has inspired some familiar headlines." The Independent, for example, proclaims that: The hardwired difference between male and female brains could explain why men are 'better at map reading' (And why women are 'better at remembering a conversation')."
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What shifting notions of sex and gender mean for affirmative action in the workplace.
"The primary problem ... is the set of social practices – economic, political, cultural, organisational, interpersonal and individual – that organises relations between people on the basis of their sex, in ways that perpetuate inequalities in material resources, power and status." |
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"Right from the start, perhaps reassured by the neoliberal promise that a competitive market provides all the regulation and mechanically induced ethics that a society requires, the rhetoric of diversity management 'began to ignore civil-rights/social justice arguments … and took an economic turn', note management academics Cliff Oswick and Mike Noon."
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"The subject of BBC investigative journalist Hannah Barnes’s book is the Tavistock and Portman Trust’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) in London. GIDS is slated for closure this year, following a tactfully damning interim report for NHS England by the distinguished paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass. At the core of the clinic’s collapse is the construction of institutional ignorance."
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Join us as we discuss Fine's book and her insights into how workplace structures continue to privilege men, why post-MeToo efforts have failed to create lasting change, and what genuine equality for all might look like.
Speakers: • Cordelia Fine, Award-winning author of Testosterone Rex and Delusions of Gender • Jeremy Davies, Deputy CEO and Head of Impact & Communications, Fatherhood Institute • Aneeta Rattan, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School • Alexandra Topping, Senior News Reporter, The Guardian • Heejung Chung (Chair), Professor of Work and Employment, King's College London and Director, the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership |
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"What are the roles of biology and social factors in the development of psychological differences between girls and boys, women and men? What is the best way to understand those differences from a scientific standpoint? ..The goal is to raise and anwer questions of all kinds, to further in-depth dialogue across disciplinary boundaries, and to facilitate progress on all sides of the issue."
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Cordelia Fine on debunking gendered science.
Cordelia Fine is an academic psychologist and author who brings her work challenging gender misconceptions in science to a wider audience through her best-selling books, including Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds, which was the Royal Society science book of the year in 2017. In this episode, Julia and Cordelia discuss encounters with sexism in their early school years, how the male and female brain are not as different as is traditionally understood, and how inequality between the sexes is cultural not natural. |
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Working Fathers, is a podcast about dads, families and work. It looks at the many different roles fathers play in contemporary Australian families and society and how policy can better recognise, value and support.
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