Induction and Staff Development
Clare Burton Memorial 2011 Lecture
Stamping out gender inequality: the battle against negative
neuroscience
Presented by Dr Cordelia Fine, Academic psychologist and writer
It is hard to believe but gender biased notions of male ‘superiority’
and other forms of sexual inequality may still be deriving their power
from scurrilous claims that science proves that women are inferior –
otherwise known as ‘neurosexism’.
Dr Cordelia Fine, educated at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and now
a psychologist, neuroscientist and highly successful author, puts it
this way: For as long as there has been brain science there have been
misguided explanations and justifications of sex inequality: women’s
skulls are the wrong shape; their brains too small; their hemispheres
too unspecialized. These hypotheses are eventually hurled on the
scientific scrap heap - but not before they become part of cultural
lore, and reinforce social attitudes about men and women in ways that
hinder progress towards greater sex equality.
In her fascinating and occasionally humorous lecture entitled How
the New Neurosexism Helps Sustain the Status Quo, Dr Fine will
show how stereotypes created in the name of science have influenced
attitudes and behaviour in the workplace in self-fulfilling ways and how
they still interfere with our trajectory towards real equality.
Do not miss this revealing and intriguing examination of yet another
subtle barrier to women’s rightful equality.
Event Details
Date: Monday 31 October 2011
Time: 5.30pm – 8.00pm (Doors open from 5.00pm), Public lecture
followed by a book signing, cocktails and canapés
Venue: University of South Australia – Allan Scott Auditorium,
Second floor, Hawke Building, 50-60 North Terrace, Adelaide
Note: Venue relocation to accommodate high interest
Cost: Free
RSVP:
clareburton.lecture@unisa.edu.au or phone 8302 7008
Invitation to the Clare Burton Memorial Lecture 2011 (PDF 208kb)
About our speaker
Dr Cordelia Fine is an academic psychologist and writer. She has been
described as:
Cordelia's latest book, Delusions of gender: How our minds, society,
and neurosexism create difference was short-listed for the Best Book of
Ideas Prize 2011, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction
2011 and the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2010. She is also the
author of A Mind of Its Own: How your brain distorts and deceives.
Cordelia studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University, followed
by an M.Phil in Criminology at Cambridge University. She was awarded a
PhD in Psychology from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at
University College London. She has held research positions at Monash
University, ANU and Macquarie University. She is currently an Associate
Professor in the Centre for Ethical Leadership at the Melbourne Business
School, University of Melbourne.
Supported by The Bob
Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre at UniSA, and the
Australian Technology Network of
Universities, Women’s Executive Development Program
Further information about the Clare Burton Lectures can be found on the ATN WEXDEV site: http://www.atn.edu.au/wexdev/news/burton.htm
The Clare Burton Memorial Scholarship commemorates Dr. Clare Burton, a leading researcher, public sector administrator, academic, consultant and writer on employment equity. The $10,000 scholarship provides funds to support post-graduate research into gender equity.
Further information about the Clare Burton Memorial Scholarship can be found at http://www.atn.edu.au/wexdev/scholarship/
