L’égalité des sexes n’a rien à voir avec la science!
This article is a critique of a recent book that was written with the objective of defending sex equality by denying the existence of differences between women and men. The first part of the article argues that sex equality is a social value independent of the fact that men and women differ in certain ways. When researchers use scientific data to defend personal values and beliefs, it is an abuse of power that affects both their own credibility and that of science itself. The second part demonstrates the importance of developing a better understanding of those sex differences, both large and small, even if men and women have more points in common than differences. Researchers rarely take context into account when they measure different traits and compare scores instead of comparing the developmental processes involved in women and men’s adaptation to their environment. The interaction between environment and biological predispositions is inherent in the developmental processes requiring further investigation.
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