Women's Brains By Stephen Gould Analysis

Stephen Glould challanged the work of scientests who insisted women had smaller brains and therefore were less intelegent, when wrote the 1980’s essay “Womens Brains”. Glould talks about the inacuatrate way scientests were meassuring the size of the brain, he also told about all the factors that were not being considered when collecting data which lead to the bogus statemnts about women being less than men. For example Paul Broca measured the size and weight of the brain of both women and men. “For 292 male brains, he calculated an average weight of 1,325g; 140 female brains averaged 1,144g for a difference of 181 grams” (women’s brains). But what Broca neglected to include was that men on average are taller and weigh more than women, so of course their brains would weight more. Broca and others used this data to talk down on women and claim that they are inferior to men. “Gustave Le Bon, chief misogynist of Broca’s school, used this data to publish what must be the most vicious attack upon women in modern scientific literature” (women’s brains). Gould redefined the stereotype that …show more content…
Malcolm X defines literacy as being able to educate yourself by reading books and studying the dictionary without going to school and being taught by a teacher. He believes that education and having knowledge about facts, one’s history, and the world is significant and it helps to bring awareness and understanding to the world. Malcolm X defined all odds and became someone when nobody thought he would. Gould redefines the stereotypes and statistics of women by, looking into what he found to be true, women were just as smart as men. Glould proves Boca’s data is inacurate numourse time throuout the essay, and proves that with the right mesurments and factors applies that women are actualy just as or if not more intelegent then men. Both men played a big part in history and being a definer instead of