Professor Cordelia Fine is an Huge thanks to Carnegie Corporation academic psychologist & of New York for generously supporting award-winning writer on sex, this lecture. gender and science. Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic foundation created by Professor Fine studied Experimental Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to do ‘real and at the , followed by an MPhil in permanent good in this world.’ Criminology at the . She was awarded a PhD in Psychology from University College London and is now a Professor in the It is America’s oldest grant making History and of Science programme at foundation, dedicated to the PROFESSOR CORDELIA FINE the University of Melbourne. advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. Professor Fine is the recipient of the 2018 Edinburgh SCIENCE, Medal, a prestigious award that recognises scientists www.carnegie.org who have excelled in their fi eld and have contributed GENDER & signifi cantly to our understanding of humanity. She received the award for her work in challenging EQUALITY gender bias in science and for her contributions to public debates about gender equality. ANDREW CARNEGIE LECTURE

Professor Fine’s second book, , was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the Best Book of Ideas 2011, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the biannual cross-genre Warwick Prize 2013.

Her latest book, Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds, won the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2017.

We’re delighted to welcome Professor Fine to the University of Glasgow to deliver today’s lecture.

Produced by the Development & Alumni Offi ce, University of Glasgow. WORLD Designed by Cactus. ©University of Glasgow, May 2018 CHANGING The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 GLASGOW The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Welcome to the fi fth annual Series is a celebration of the Andrew Carnegie Lecture University of Glasgow’s close connection with Andrew Carnegie at the University of Glasgow. and his vision of the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and We are delighted to welcome Professor Cordelia Fine to deliver this evening’s lecture, understanding. Science, Gender & Equality. GLASGOW HAS DONE SO MUCH Andrew Carnegie was a renowned and well-respected IN MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS TO Science has long shaped our understandings of the feasibility and desirability of industrialist and philanthropist who donated much of EDUCATE OTHER CITIES AND TO his wealth to improving society. Carnegie took a HELP HERSELF THAT IT IS A gender equality in the workplace: from Victorian brain scientists’ claims that the special interest in education and became a major “missing fi ve ounces of female brain” explain women’s intellectual inferiority, to the PRIVILEGE TO HELP HER. benefactor to the University of Glasgow’s development ‘LET GLASGOW FLOURISH!’ modern day “business case” that proposes enhanced performance, productivity and during the 20th century. profi ts from gender diversity in senior leadership. In recognition of this support, several teaching facilities have been named after him, including The Carnegie In this lecture, Professor Fine will discuss current and emerging themes at the Lecture Theatre on the University’s main campus. contested and controversial intersection of science, gender and equality. Tonight’s lecture is another celebration of collaborative excellence thanks to the lasting legacy of Andrew Letter from Andrew Carnegie to Principal Robert Story, Carnegie’s generosity. University of Glasgow, 28 May 1906 Courtesy of University of Glasgow Archive Services

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