Susan Pinker

Marrying the findings of the new field of social neuroscience together with gripping human stories, award-winning author and psychologist Susan Pinker explores the impact of face-to-face contact from cradle to grave, from city to Sardinian mountain village, from classroom to workplace, from love to marriage to divorce. Her results are enlightening and enlivening, and they challenge our assumptions. Most of us have left the literal village behind, and dont want to give up our new technologies to go back there. But, as Pinker writes so compellingly, we need close social bonds and uninterrupted face-time with our friends and families in order to thrive - even to survive. Creating our own village effect can make us happier. It can also save our lives.

Susan Pinker, psychologist and award-winning columnist, has written a groundbreaking and controversial book that reveals why learning and behavioral gaps between boys and girls in the classroom are reversed in the workplace. Pinker examines how fundamental sex differences play out over the life span. By comparing fragile boys who succeed later with high-achieving women who opt out or plateau in their careers, Pinker turns several assumptions upside down: that women and men are biologically equivalent, that intelligence is all it takes to succeed, and that women are just versions of men, with identical interests and goals. In lively prose, Pinker guides readers through the latest findings in neuroscience and economics while addressing these questions: Are males the more fragile sex? What do men with Asperger syndrome or dyslexia tell us about more average men? Which sex is the happiest at work? Why do some male college dropouts earn more than the bright girls who sat beside them in third grade? After three decades of womens educational coups, why do men outnumber women in corporate law, engineering, physical science, and politics? The answers to these questions are the opposite of what we expect. A provocative examination of how and why learning and behavioral gaps in the nursery are reversed in the boardroom, this illuminating book reveals how sex differences influence career choices and ambition. Through the stories of real men and women, science, and examples from popular culture, Susan Pinker takes a new look at the differences between women and men.

After four decades of eradicating gender barriers at work and in public life, why do men still dominate business, politics and the most highly paid jobs? Why do high-achieving women opt out of successful careers? Psychologist Susan Pinker explores the illuminating answers to these questions in her groundbreaking first book.In The Sexual Paradox, Susan Pinker takes a hard look at how fundamental sex differences continue to play out in the workplace. By comparing the lives of fragile boys and promising girls, Pinker turns several assumptions upside down: that the sexes are biologically equivalent; that smarts are all it takes to succeed; that men and women have identical goals.If most children with problems are boys, then why do many of them as adults overcome early obstacles while rafts of competent, even gifted women choose jobs that pay less or decide to opt out at pivotal moments in their careers? Weaving interviews with men and women into the most recent discoveries in psychology, neuroscience and economics, Pinker walks the reader through these minefields: Are men the more fragile sex? Which sex is the happiest at work? What does neuroscience tell us about ambition? Why do some male school drop-outs earn more than the bright, motivated girls who sat beside them in third grade?Pinker argues that men and women are not clones, and that gender discrimination is just one part of the persistent gender gap. A work world that is satisfying to us all will recognize sex differences, not ignore them or insist that we all be the same.

En la época actual, en la que Internet y las nuevas tecnologías han acortado notablemente las distancias y nos permiten estar más fácilmente en comunicación con quien vive lejos o tener más «amigos»

La psicóloga canadiense y columnista galardonada ha escrito un libro pionero y revolucionario que explica por qué diferentes modos de aprendizaje y de conducta que se aprecian en la escuela entre los niños y las niñas se invierten en el lugar de trabajo.Este libro revelador presenta un analisis provocativo sobre como y por que las diferencias de genero influyen en las elecciones profesionales y en la ambicion personal. A traves de las historias de hombres y de mujeres reales, de la ciencia y de ejemplos de la cultura popular, Susan Pinker ofrece una nueva vision de las diferencias entre mujeres y hombres.Con una prosa muy entretenida, Susan Pinker guia a los lectores a traves de los ultimos descubrimientos en neurociencia y en economia, al tiempo que responde las siguientes preguntas: ¿son los hombres el sexo debil? ¿Por que algunos chicos que dejaron los estudios universitarios a medias ganan mas que las chicas inteligentes que se sentaban junto a ellos en tercero de primaria? Con seguridad, las respuestas a estas cuestiones no dejaran indiferente al lector.