By Jennifer Fogarty, communications content manager
Our own Amy Parish, Ph.D., Upper School English teacher, and bonobo expert, was given credit for her research in an article titled, “Talent isn't keeping women away from science. Sexism, stereotypes and bad science are.”
Below is an excerpt from the article on WIRED magazine:
In 1990, primatologist Amy Parish wrote her dissertation on the socio-sexual behaviour of female bonobos. Parish's theory that bonobos behaved in a matriarchy challenged the traditional evolutionary theory that our primate ancestors have always existed in male-dominated societies. She thus pioneered Darwinian Feminism—a subversion of the famous scientist's claims that gender inequality is linked to biological differences that make women less intelligent.