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Cordelia Fine

@cordeliafine.bsky.social
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Author of Patriarchy Inc., Delusions of Gender and Testosterone Rex. Professor in the History & Philosophy of Science programme at the University of Melbourne. www.cordelia-fine.com

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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I reviewed A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds Of Men and Women, by evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams, for The Conversation. theconversation.com/how-has-evol...
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How has evolution shaped men’s and women’s minds? A new book tells an outdated story
Psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams’ third book about evolutionary psychology is A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women.
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Why do men sexually harass women? In new research, behavioural scientist Morgan Weaving, philosopher of biology Kate Lynch and I look at how two very different explanations stack up against well-established criteria for a good scientific explanation. theconversation.com/why-do-men-s...
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Why do men sexually harass women at work? Science offers two explanations – but only one of them holds up
There are two ways to understand sexual harassment in the workplace, but one of them is more scientific than the other.
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This is an excellent interview all round.
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Come if you can ...
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
So pleased to be on this list!
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Holly Dunsworth @dunsworth.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
How and for whom can genetics education reduce beliefs in genetic essentialism? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41267401/ "We also find that the 3 intervention curricula are highly effective across sociodemographic group characteristics [...] we offer evidence-based strategies for curriculum development"
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The repliCATS project @replicats.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers. 🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome 💰 AU$200 🎫 + travel subsidies ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY... Re-posts appreciated 🌈
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Do you rely on others for support? From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Feminist studies is "unfit for college campuses", according to a new article by Marc Defant. In my response, I argue that his critique misrepresents the field, offers simplistic treatments of complex issues and ignores decades of challenges to his scientific worldview. rdcu.be/eQsPv
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A Critique of Defant’s Accusations Against Feminist Studies
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Such a pleasure to talk with @tespiteri.bsky.social on the HPS Podcast about Patriarchy Inc. @allenandunwin.bsky.social @wwnortonuk.bsky.social @atlanticbooks.bsky.social
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I was very pleased to talk with Morteza Hajizadeh about Patriarchy Inc. for the New Books Network. newbooksnetwork.com/patriarchy-inc
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Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025) - New Books Network
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Delighted to share that PATRIARCHY INC. is published in North America this week with @wwnorton.com wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Really looking forward to listening to this episode of the HPS Podcast.
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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Grateful to Cristian Larroulet Philippi — our inaugural Seddon Fellow in the HPS program at UniMelb — for a rich and most insightful deep dive… 🎧 Don't miss this one! 🔗 linktr.ee/thehpspodcast @cristianlarph.bsky.social #philsci #hps #measurement
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Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Delighted with this thoughtful review of Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life in the @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...
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Behind closed doors?
One evening in 2018, Robert Ivinson, a first-year philosophy student at the University of Exeter, was alone in his designated room in halls of residence,
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
'A denuded concept of privacy is ‘more about agreeing to terms of service ... than the right to be left alone’.' Cordelia Fine on the private sphere is under threat
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Behind closed doors?
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Why do women experience such significant disadvantages within the financial system, and what can we do about it? And why isn't academic finance interested in these questions? New research with @carstenmurawski.bsky.social and Nitin Yadav. www.linkedin.com/pulse/intere...
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No Interest? The marginalization of women in academic finance
Why do women experience such significant disadvantages within the financial system and across a broad suite of financial outcomes - from the leadership of major institutions to disposable income? And ...
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King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership @giwlkings.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"...even just speaking about women and men feels more fraught than it ever has, and I've written about this for a long time" @lexytopping.bsky.social at our panel event last week, discussing @cordeliafine.bsky.social's new book, Patriarchy Inc ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1yV...
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Was immensely pleased to have the opportunity to talk patriarchy on the Now and Men podcast (the excellent name is just the beginning).
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Really looking forward to this PATRIARCHY INC event @giwlkings.bsky.social , together with: Jeremy Davies, Fatherhood Institute; Aneeta Rattan, London Business School; @lexytopping.bsky.social, The Guardian; and @heejungchung.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-we-ge...
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What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – with Cordelia Fine
Join us with Cordelia Fine, to discuss her book, Patriarchy Inc: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality and Why Men Still Win at Work
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Amy Mullins 🎙😷🎓 @amymullins.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Tune in from 9am on @3rrrfm.bsky.social to hear from two of my favourite people on the planet; Prof @cordeliafine.bsky.social & Gregory Day. Cordelia will talk about her new book, Patriarchy Inc., and Gregory Day will delve into his new collection of poems written across 20 years, Southsightedness.
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Jenna Price @jennaprice.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Look, she's got a lot of morning tea privilege but put that aside. We need to fund @cordeliafine.bsky.social to build a Finebot for a very good reason. We could all do that by buying her book Patriarchy Inc. Do it! Anyhow read my review to find out why! www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
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A witty guide to fixing the status quo that harms us all
Award-winning author and academic Cordelia Fine gives us a once-in-a-lifetime analysis of gender equality – and what needs to change.
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 08/04/2025
Does biology determine destiny, or is society the dominant cause of masculine and feminine traits? In this spirited exchange, the psychologist Cordelia Fine and the evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven unpack the complex relationship between testosterone and human behaviour
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A psychologist and biologist debate the significance of testosterone | Aeon Essays
In probing whether there are basic sex differences in humans, a psychologist and a biologist agree to seriously disagree
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Cordelia Fine @cordeliafine.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
My latest book, Patriarchy Inc., is out now in the UK, published by @atlanticbooks.bsky.social and distributed by @allenandunwin.bsky.social in Australia. More information at www.cordelia-fine.com/patriarchy-i...
Book cover of Patriarchy Inc.: What we get wrong about gender equality and why men still win at work by Cordelia Fine
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