Gender bias often originates from notorious gender role myths that have no basis in reality. It's high-time scientific evidence debunks them!
Do any of the following statements sound familiar? Girls seldom do well in sciences. Women are exceptional liars, better at this craft than the opposite sex. Men are less sensitive and empathetic than their supposed counterparts. Men are perpetual risk-takers, whereas women tend to opt for safety.
According to the behavioral economist Dr. Agne Kajackaite, these supposed "truths" should be taken with more than a pinch of salt and set against data analysis. She challenges conventional wisdom, which usually results in gender disparity, and invites readers into labs around the world, drawing on data-driven research and experiments to confront the age-old question - are men and women really as different as we think?
In "WO/MEN", you will find out definitive answers to questions like:
o Who is more competitive - men or women? And who cheats more?
o Who is more likely to perform selfless acts like donating blood?
o Whose cognitive abilities are more affected by the temperature in the room?
o Who is more easily persuaded by incredible things like conspiracy theories?
...and learn many surprising facts about human behavior and the circumstances that shape it.
"People are different, and that's what makes us interesting. In this wonderful book, Agne dives into the science of gender differences in a fun and provocative way. She shows how we're not as different as we think, but that doesn't mean that one size fits us all."
Uri Gneezy,
Professor of Economics and Strategy and Chair in Behavioral Economics, University of California San Diego
Author of international best sellers The Why Axis and Mixed Signals
"In this Tour de Force, like an expert sleuth, Agne turns up the heat by lucidly describing the economics of gender, ranging from the descriptives to the underpinnings determining those behavioral differences. A must read for the constantly curious person who yearns for facts around a critical social issue of the day."
John A. List,
Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Author of international best sellers The Why Axis and The Voltage Effect
Dr. Agne Kajackaite is a Lithuanian researcher specializing in behavioral economics. She received a BA in Economics from Vilnius University, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Cologne. In 2017, she became the Head of the Ethics and Behavioral Economics Group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre and is currently a professor at the University of Milan. In 2019, her research on "the battle of the thermostat", showing that women are more productive in warmer temperatures, has been headlined by the New York Times, Time, CNN, BBC and many other magazines and news outlets, and was in the Top 100 of most trending scientific articles in the news in 2019, according to Altmetric.
