Gender Inequality

3 sexist myths about the brain, debunked

A booth assistant checks out a video game of BTD STUDIO Co. Ltd. and Quattro Media Corporation with a mobile phone during Tokyo Game Show 2006 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, east of Tokyo, September 22, 2006. The three-day show will feature exhibits by 148 companies. REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota

Neuroscience helps us to shine a light on sexist attitudes Image:  REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota

P. Murali Doraiswamy
Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Duke University Medical Center
Tara Swart
CEO, The Unlimited Mind. She is also a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of Neuroscience for Leadership.
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