In the essay “Women’s Brains” published in 1980 as part of “The Panda’s Thumb”, Stephen Jay Gould, an evolutionary biologist, argues against the judgements against women referring to their “lack” of intelligence. He also argues that we can not trust science to give us the full truth without missing something. Gould wrote this text to argue against the French professor Paul Broca when an experiment he conducted found that women are inferior to men because their skull size was smaller making them not as smart. Gould analyzed not only Broca’s work, but also many of his followers to show that the results they found from their own work always has one flaw in their work when they argue that women aren’t as smart as men.

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