WOMEN AND BRAINS
Believing that science has been unfair in its comparisons of thy, brainpower of man and woman, Helen Gardener, authoress and a member of the Civil Service Commission at Washingion, has bequeathed her brain to the Cornell University, United States. The object is that experts may have an opportunity of studying “the brain of a woman who thinks.” The testator contends that scientists’ theory of women’s mental inferiority is based on a study or the brains or poor examples of their sex.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9028, 6 November 1925, Page 5
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