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PINK BRAIN, BLUE BRAIN: How Small Differences Grow into
Troublesome Gaps – and What We Can Do About It explores the
innate differences between the brains of young boys and girls.
Written by neuroscientist and mother of three, Lise Eliot, the book
shatters preconceptions of brain development in children. Calling
on years of exhaustive research and her own work in the field of
neuroplasticity, Eliot argues that infant brains are so malleable
that the small differences at birth become amplified over time, as
parents and teachers (and the culture at large) unwittingly
reinforce gender stereotypes. Children themselves exacerbate the
differences by playing to their own (modest) strengths
(“ball-throwing” or “doll-cuddling”). |
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By appreciating how sex differences
emerge, rather than assuming that they are fixed biological facts,
we can help all children reach their fullest potential and close
the troubling gaps between boys and girls. |
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About Lise Eliot:
Lise Eliot, a graduate of Harvard, received her Ph.D. from Columbia
University. She is an associate professor of neuroscience at the
Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine
and Science. The mother of two sons and a daughter, she is also the
author of What’s Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind
Develop in the First Five Years of Life.
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