Angela Saini on the origins of patriarchy
A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard
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The Complexity of Language
The earliest written examples of Indo-European languages do not appear to have a grammatically separate feminine gender. The book does take us in a beautiful way to much of this complexity and there are some fantastic word portraits that leave you thinking for many many hours afterwards. I was just in Spain last week at a gender and science communication conference and one of the sessions was on how difficult it is for researchers and reporters to write about science in a fair inclusive way because even the word for scientist in the Spanish language is either a male scientist or a female scientist. You imagine every single word, every single noun is gendered in some way. How do you ever separate yourself from that and build a more diverse
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