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Genders

For as long as behavioral science has been around there has been an ongoing dispute between the significance of nature versus nurture and their influencing roles on animal behavior. One of the many subjects that this tug of war can been applied to is gender role. How much does biology, or nature, have to do with differences between genders? Are males better at certain things because every man is created better than a woman? Or, is the only thing that may make males excel is the environment in which they were raised? These are some of he many questions that Ann Fausto-Sterling attempts to relieve within the pages of her book Myths of Gender. Two psychologists by the name of Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Nagy Jacklin are the basis from which Fausto Sterling’s argument is formed. They are the ones who while throwing out many other stereotyped sex differences maintained the four ideas of “fairly well established sex differences”, three of which had academic significance: (1)girls ...

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