Angela Saini, science journalist and the author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story (Beacon Press, 2017), looks at the ways science missed the boat when studying women and where new research is changing the picture and what that explains about the lack of women in top STEM fields. "We are gendered in many ways from the moment we are born," Saini explains. However, we shouldn't think of ourselves as different sexes even though we are led to believe that. Because the differences in gender are really constructed by society.

We often assume that scientific studies and science in general is free from bias. "There is a lot of space for prejudice to enter in the body of research itself," Saini says. And that is true for a lot of the previous science on women, which oftentimes carry a lot of gender stereotypes.