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"Olive Johnson and Carolyn Harley report that being right- or left-handed is a better predictor of cognitive abilities than is sex." (p. 170)

"In fact the main finding, from about eigthy years of research, is a massive psycological similarity between women and men in the populations studied by psychologist." (p. 170)

"Feminity and masculinity need not to be treated as polar opposites, i.e., as ends of the same dimension. Each might be treated as a separate scale, and the same person might get high scores on both. This idea ocurred to a number of American psychologists in the early 1970s [...] Spence and Helmreich performed a kind of reductio ad absurdum, by constrcuting a feminity scale, a masculinity scale and a M/F [masculinity/feminity] scale and showing they were all statistically unconnected when administered to the same people." (p. 174)


  • R. W. Connell, Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics, 1987. Unámonos siniestros del mundo... Las conclusiones sobre el género están más abajo.

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