“Moms of boys got it right to within 1 degree,” Begley explained, but “moms of girls underestimated what their daughters could do by 9 degrees, even though there are no differences in the motor skills of infant boys and girls.” (emphasis added) In a 2009 Newsweek article, Sharon Begley wrote about a study in which mothers were asked to estimate how steep a slope their 11-month-olds could crawl down. Could our beliefs be causing us to make girls smaller, slower, and less powerful? but absent from most discussions is the possibility that a social construct like, I don’t know, maybe patriarchy is playing a role. We’ve all heard the immutable biological factors - skeletal structure, testosterone, lung capacity, etc. This got me thinking about the carved-in-stone “reality” that the vast majority of men are supposedly bigger, faster, and stronger than the vast majority of women. They not only took on the 19,974-foot high Huayna Potosi Mountain in Bolivia but did so while dressed like, um… well, women (read: traditional Aymara clothing). Recently, a group of Aymara women amazed the world by doing something unexpected.
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Her most recent book is The Barbizon, which came out with Simon & Schuster in 2021. in International Studies from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in the College of Letters from Wesleyan University, an M.A. Her family left for England, moving to the United States another ten years later. Paulina has a B.A. Paulina Bren is a writer and historian. She was born in Czechoslovakia in the city of Brno, but her life trajectory veered unexpectedly when the Soviet Warsaw Pact army invaded soon after. Prepare for a thrilling adventure in Dark Heir. With the help of her trusted partners, Yellowrock Securities, Jane must risk everything to stop this dangerous foe. Best urban fantasy I've read in years, possibly ever."-C. This riveting novel follows the skilled skinwalker Jane Yellowrock as she takes on her toughest challenge yet: a centuries-old, powerful vampire witch wreaking havoc in New Orleans. 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