Sex Inequality and Bias in Sex Differences Research

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (sup1):24-39 (1987)
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In this essay, I want to identify an invidious bias that is embedded in much research into sex differences. I shall argue that bias against women is endemic in any such research programme that fails to take account at every stage of women's social inequality. It is primarily because its view of the relation between sexual difference and sexual inequality is too simplistic that much sex differences research rationalizes and so perpetuates women's subordination.

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10.1080/00455091.1987.10715927

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