The September 2017 issue of Scientific American is The New Science of Sex and Gender. These are the specific articles, which are fascinating to read.
- Promiscuous Men, Chaste Women and Other Gender Myths
- False: behavioral differences between the sexes are innate an immutable
- Is There a “Female” Brain?
- A debate is raging over whether women and men have meaningful different brains
- When Sex and Gender Collide
- Many transgender children show surprisingly firm identities at young ages
- Beyond XX and YY
- A host of factors into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between
- Not Just for Men
- Researchers and doctors must dig deeper into gender differences before they can provide women with better treatments
- Life Before Roe
- Access to abortion increasingly depends on a women’s income or zip code
- The Brilliance Trap
- How a misplaced emphasis on genius subtly discourages women and African Americans from certain academic fields.
- Girl Code
- Closing the gender gap in computer science at an early age
- The Blogger and the Trolls
- Turning online harassment into a force for good
- Women’s Work
- Why are the barriers to economic opportunity so hard to change
- Mind the Gap
- Gender inequality remains a global phenomenon
- Return of the Missing Daughters
- Harsh traditions that harm girls in Asia have started to change
- The Woman Who Saved the Planet
- By harnessing “female energy” former UN negotiator Christiana Figueres convinced humanity to take on climate change