THE SEXUAL PARADOX: MEN, WOMEN, AND THE REAL GENDER GAP

Book ID/图书代码： 12760007B15650

English Summary/英文概要： The Sexual Paradox takes a hard look at how fundamental gender differences play out in the workplace. By comparing fragile boys who later succeed, with high-achieving women who opt out, Susan Pinker turns several assumptions upside down: that the sexes are biologically equivalent, that smarts are all it takes to succeed, and that men and women have identical interests and goals. After decades of girls’ educational coups and women rising through the ranks, men still outnumber women in business, physical science, law, engineering, and politics. In explaining this ratio, Pinker’s controversial stance is that discrimination plays just a bit part. If the majority of children with school and behavioural problems are boys, then why do so many overcome early obstacles, while rafts of high-achieving women choose jobs that pay less, or opt out at pivotal moments in their careers?
A provocative examination of how and why learning and behavioural gaps in the nursery are reversed in the boardroom, The Sexual Paradox reveals how gender differences influence ambition and success. Through real men and women’s stories combined with research evidence and examples from popular culture, Susan Pinker examines how weaknesses can become strengths, and how early achievements do not automatically translate into standard career triumphs

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 為什麼在經過四十多年努力根除職場及生活中所有的性別差距障礙後，男性還是主導著商業界，政治界，以及占據多數的高薪職位？ 為什麼很多到達事業高峰的職業婦女還會選擇默然退出她們成功的事業？ 心理學家蘇珊‧乒克 (Susan Pinker) 在她的第一本書中會一一探索以及答復這些問題。
在 『兩性矛盾』這本書中蘇珊‧乒克 深入的探討兩性的基本差別是如何影響職場表現。乒克舉例一些身心較脆弱的男孩及一些大有前途的女孩來比較他們的生活，她的結論 卻是否定了一些盛傳已久的假設： 例如兩性是生理上同等的； 聰明是成功之母；男女擁有完全相同目標…等等。
如果多數有問題的孩子都是男孩，那為什麼大多數這些問題男童在成人後多半都能克服早期障礙而順利的勝任職位，反之當初能幹又有天賦的婦女則選擇薪水比較少的工作或是在他們的事業到達一定的高度時決定選擇離開？ 作者利用許多真人採訪到在心理學、神經科學、和經濟學的最新發現。 乒克在書中帶領著讀者通過許多這些地雷區： 男人是否是比較脆弱的性？ 哪一個性別最能在職場享受工作的愉快？ 神經科學能夠告訴什麼我們關於人的志向？ 為什麼一些早年慘遭受退學的男性反而還是比兒時三年級曾經坐在他們旁邊、聰慧又有理想的女孩來賺的更多？
乒克爭辯說男人和女人並不是生理完全的複製品。并且，兩性的生理基本差異是保持性別差距的重要一環。 一個令人滿意的職場工作空間是一個能夠對這基本的兩性差別有所認可，而不是一味的忽略或否定這個差別並且堅持男女兩性是完全一樣無差別。

Awards/获奖情况：RIGHTS SOLD
US: Scribner, March 2008
UK: Atlantic Books, spring 2008
Canada: Random House, February 2008
Holland: Contact, spring 2008
Brazil: Grupo Editorial Record/Bestseller Books
Israel: Hakibbutz Hameuchad
Germany: DVA - Deutsche Verlagsanstalt
Japan: Hayakawa
Spain: Paidós, 2008Italy: Einaudi
Romania: Curtea Veche
rench language, world ex-Canada: Editions Les Arènes, fall 2008
French language, Canada: Transcontinental, fall 2008
Poland: Jacek Santorski & Co
Israel: Aryeh Nir

About the Author/作者介绍： Susan Pinker is a psychologist and a Globe and Mail newspaper columnist. Her writing has been recognized in awards from the Periodical Writing Association of Canada (2002) and the Canadian Medical Association (2000), and she has been nominated for the John Alexander Media Award (2000) and the Aventis Pasteur Medal for Excellence in Health Research Journalism (1999). An experienced clinician who has seen thousands of clients since she began her practice in 1982, Susan held a position as a teacher at the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University where she also worked in clinical practice. She lives in Montreal with her husband and three children.
Susan Pinker這位發展心理學家也同時是加拿大Globe and Mail專欄作家。1982年開始執業，除了擁有豐富的臨床經驗，她的出版品也屢受加拿大期刊協會(Periodical Writing Association of Canada)及加拿大醫學協會肯定。除了持續諮詢工作外，還任教於蒙特婁的麥基爾大學(McGill University)的教育與諮商心理學系。與丈夫及三個孩子住在蒙特婁。

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