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Why Gender Matters by Leonard Sax

Why Gender Matters

What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

by Leonard Sax
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  • Feb 15, 2005, 320 pages
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  • Feb 2006, 336 pages
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