Hoo-Boy! The Ladies Are Having a Hissy-Fit!

The fallout from his memo is huge. The usual suspects are fulminating wildly.

But, many are defending his actions, and pointing to the logic underlying his argument.


Including this woman:

Deborah W. Soh, a Toronto based science writer who has a PhD in sexual neuroscience from the University of York —

"As a woman who’s worked in academia and within STEM, I didn’t find the memo offensive or sexist in the least. I found it to be a well thought out document, asking for greater tolerance for differences in opinion, and treating people as individuals instead of based on group membership. Within the field of neuroscience, sex differences between women and men—when it comes to brain structure and function and associated differences in personality and occupational preferences—are understood to be true, because the evidence for them (thousands of studies) is strong. This is not information that’s considered controversial or up for debate; if you tried to argue otherwise, or for purely social influences, you’d be laughed at."

More from Soh, PhD candidate in science.


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