Why Men Rule is a book by Steven Goldberg, published by the Open Court Publishing Company in 1993. The hypothesis proposed by Goldberg is that social institutions like patriarchy, that are characterised by male dominance, can be explained by the biological differences between men and women. Thus, in his view, male dominance is quite possibly inevitable. Why Men Rule is Goldberg's second book on this subject. The library of congress cataloging-in-publication data consider it a revised edition of the first book. Goldberg divides his presentation into four sections. The first section, "The Inevitability of Patriarchy", is the main section and presents a case for the theory of male dominance. The second section, "Objections and Implications", claims to considers all the objections actually raised against this theory. It also considers the implications that would follow were the theory true. The third section, "Cognitive Differentiation", considers the area of cognitive differences between men and women. These lie between basic biological differences and the high-order social differences. Less information is available regarding this area, but its broad correspondence with the others is [ - ]

Why Men Rule is a book by Steven Goldberg, published by the Open Court Publishing Company in... [ + ]