PUBLISHED: Debating a Testosterone “Sex Gap” in Science Magazine

June 21, 2015
PUBLISHED: Debating a Testosterone “Sex Gap” in Science Magazine

Rebecca Jordan-Young, director of the CSSD working group on Science and Social Difference and Tow Associate Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, has published an important article in Science magazine on the controversy and science surrounding levels of testosterone in female athletes. Jordan-Young maintains that calls to exclude women with high testosterone are not rooted in science but ultimately in social and ethical claims concerning how we understand and frame human diversity. Read the article here.