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Status Quota: Do Mandatory Gender Quotas Work?

Cordelia Fine

Despite more than 25 years of anti-discrimination legislation, it remains the case that the higher up any organisational ladder you look,...

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The Porn Ultimatum: The Dehumanising Effects of Smut

Cordelia Fine

It was certainly no simple task trying to make sense of these starkly different pictures of porn and its effects. The most important...

Delusions of Gender: The real science behind sex differences. Cordelia Fine

Delusions of Gender: The real science behind sex differences. Cordelia Fine

Cordelia Fine

Part 1 | Part 2Looking at the brain to try and find out why men and women behave differently is something that has been going on for...

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