Sex and Academe

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Sex and Academe
A.E. Brain
By Zoe Brain
20 May, 2010


http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/05/sex-and-academe.html 🔗


From WAToday.com.au. That's Western Australia, not Washington state.

    What would be remarkably instructive in real life would be if women in various professions could experience life as men, and vice versa. If the same person got treated differently, we would be sure sexism was at work, because the only thing that changed was the sex of the individual and not his or her skills, talent, knowledge, experience, or interests.

    Joan Roughgarden and Ben Barres are biologists at Stanford University. Both are researchers at one of the premier academic institutions in the country; both are tenured professors. Both are transgendered people.