Tag: biology
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Explaining lower female crime rates: biological theories
Do biological differences between men and women explain why women commit much less crime than men? Biological Theories explain the higher rates of crime in terms of biological differences between males and females. The most obvious example of such a theory is that men have higher testosterone levels than women and thus have higher levels…
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Do Biological Differences Explain why Women are More Religious than Men?
Grace Davie has argued that women feel closer to God because they are involved in the creation of life through pregnancy and childbirth. It is possible that being pregnant, and carrying a new life around for several months, makes women reflect more on spiritual matters such as the meaning of life, and ethical considerations of…
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Is Google Sexist?
In a memo published in August 2017 a (male) Google engineer suggested that gender inequality in the technology industry in general and Google in particular is not due to sexism, but due largely to biological differences between men and women. The memo was called “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” and the guy who wrote it was…
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An Introduction to Sex, Gender and Gender Identity
The aim of this post is to provide a very brief introduction to the very complex topic of sex, gender and gender identity. Sex, gender and gender identity: basic definitions Sex refers to the biological differences between men and women Gender refers to the cultural differences between – it is to do with social norms…
