Chromosomes


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Oh sure, because my chromosomes totally dictate my ability to park a car.
Anubha Saxena

Caroline Criado Pérez
Throughout this book I will refer to both sex and gender. By 'sex', I mean the biological characteristics that determine whether an individual is male or female , XX and XY. By 'gender', I mean the social meanings we impose upon those biological facts. The way women are treated because they are perceived to be female. One is man-made, but both are real and both have significant consequences for women as they navigate this world constructed on male data. But although I talk about both sex and gen ...more
Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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