Why Gender Matters, Second Edition: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

Sax's work. This revised and updated edition includes new findings about how boys and girls interact differently with social media and video games; a completely new discussion of research on gender non-conforming, LGB, and transgender kids, new findings about how girls and boys see differently, hear differently, and even smell differently; and new material about the medicalization of bad behavior.. In the intervening decade, the world has changed drastically, with an avalanche of new research which supports, deepens, and expands Dr. Sax argued that in failing to recognize these hardwired differences between boys and girls, we ended up reinforcing damaging stereotypes, medicalizing normal behavior (see: the rising rates of ADHD diagnosis), and failing to support kids to

Sax was a practicing family physician in Maryland, just outside Washington DC. He has appeared on the TODAY Show, CNN, National Public Radio, Fox News, PBS, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, New Zealand Television, and many other national and international media. Find him online at leonardsax. Leonard Sax MD PhD graduated Phi B

In 2005, Doubleday published his first book Why Gender Matters; an updated edition will be published by Harmony in 2017. Sax was a practicing family physician in Maryland, just outside Washington DC. He has visited more than 400 schools since 2001. His second book, Boys Adrift, was published in 2007. He now sees patients in West Chester, Pennsylvania (west of Philadelphia). For 19 years, Dr. His third book Girls on the Edge was published in 2010. About the AuthorLeonard Sax MD PhD graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the age of 19, and then went on to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned both a PhD in psychology, and an MD. He has appeared on the TODAY Show, CNN, National Public Radio, Fox News, PBS, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Aus