quinta-feira, 27 de dezembro de 2018

«Eleanor Maccoby, Pathbreaker on How Boys and Girls Differ, Dies at 101»







Eleanor Maccoby morreu e no NYT  temos este trabalho:


«Eleanor Maccoby, Pathbreaker on How Boys and Girls Differ, Dies at 101» 

De lá:  « (...) 
Dr. Maccoby (MACK-uh-bee) did not initially consider herself a feminist. But she was gradually awakened by slights along the way, like being not allowed to enter the Faculty Club at Harvard through its front entrance, which was reserved for men, even though she was a member.
Asked in a video interview in 2013 how she became interested in gender issues, she replied, “We lived it.”
While teaching at Stanford, she noticed that scientific literature either portrayed women negatively or excluded them altogether. One study, for example, said female prisoners were more likely than men to sell out a fellow inmate in exchange for their own freedom. Yet even though almost 30 other studies disputed that finding, Dr. Maccoby found that none had been published, because a conclusion of “no difference” was not considered valuable. (...)».. Leia na integra.


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