Marcia Stefanick: women's west coast initiatives lead to wisdom

Abstract

In a career devoted to rattling the defensive bars of received wisdom, Marcia Stefanick's restless scrutiny of the status quo has lighted on a new target: human biology. “At this point I feel strongly that some of our basic biology is wrong. It may not be profoundly wrong. It may in some cases just need tweaking. But in other cases I feel it is wrong.” The specific area in which she believes it to be failing is the longstanding neglect of sex differences.