Archive Gallery: PopSci Fights the Battle of the Sexes
July 1928 PopSci attempts to determine, once and for all, which is the superior gender Over the years, Popular Science has strived to answer your questions about the world we live in. What's on the moon? Why don't we have flying cars? How do magnets work? As compelling and relevant as these questions are, though, none inspires as much fury as the age-old debate on whether men and women are equally capable. For the most part, we answered no. Like it or not, our magazine has always been a product of its time, and for at least the first 70 years of our 138-year history, we held men in higher esteem because science and feminist literature had not yet given us reason to believe that women could accomplish much on a grand scale. Click to launch the photo gallery. While the battle of the sexes began thousands of years ago, we...