Sofi Chavez’s Reviews > Delusions of Gender > Status Update

..As Hines has explained, sex is easily asessed, routinely evaluated, and not always reported. Because it is more interesting to find a difference than to find no difference, the 19 failures to observe a difference between men and women go unreported, whereas the 1 in 20 finding of a difference is likely to be published. This contributes to the so-called file-drawer phenomenon.

This... When women display the necessary confidence in their skills and comfort with power, they run the risk of being regarded as ‘competent but cold’: the bitch, the ice queen, the iron maiden, the ballbuster, the battle axe, the dragon lady...