A Mathematician's Manifesto For Rethinking Gender

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 8 a.m.

In her new book, x+y, mathematician Eugenia Cheng uses her specialty, category theory, to challenge how we think about gender and the traits associated with it. Instead, she calls for a new dimension of thinking, characterizing behavior in a way completely removed from considerations of gender.

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