Eliot, Lise

Discusses the malleability of infant brains and the small ways that gender differences are, over time, amplified and guided by parents, teachers, and society as a whole, and argues for ways to encourage balanced gender development among boys and girls.

Charts the development of the human brain from conception through the first five years, looking at the way a child's brain is assembled and the implications of this sequence for each emerging mental skill, including sensation, emotion, language, movement, memory, and intelligence.