Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

Leonard Sax

ISBN 10: 1470848023 ISBN 13: 9781470848026

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, 2012

Synopsis

[Read by Raymond Todd]

Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn't think so. However, an avalanche of research has shown that sex differences are more significant than anybody guessed. Gender differences are real, biologically programmed, and important to how children are raised, disciplined, and educated. - - Dr. Leonard Sax addresses a host of issues, including discipline, learning, risk taking, aggression, sex, and drugs and shows how boys and girls react in predictable ways to different situations. A leading proponent of single-sex education, Dr. Sax points out that parents and teachers would do better to recognize, understand, and make use of the biological differences that make a girl a girl and a boy a boy.

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About the Author

Leonard Sax, MD, PhD, is a family physician, research psychologist, and acclaimed author of <i.Why Gender Matters. He is founder and executive director of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education in Montgomery County, Maryland (NASSPE). His scholarly work has been published in a wide variety of prestigious journals, including American Psychologist, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Journal of the American Medical Association. He lives in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Audio
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1470848023
• ISBN 13: 9781470848026
• Binding: Audio CD