Cordelia Fine, as a female researcher and academic, has firsthand experience of the sexism she discusses. How does Fine’s authorial presence—for instance, her use of humor and personal anecdote—contribute to her arguments?

Fine’s research suggests that many studies of gender difference are hamstrung by researchers’ implicit bias. What design flaws seem to find their way into these studies, and how might one design a study to examine gendered behavior that avoided these flaws?

Delusions of Gender was first published in 2010. Since then, discourse about sexism has become even more prominent in American culture. What connections might you draw between the research in this book and events in recent history?