Observable Behavioral Differences Between Men And Women

Since the beginning of time there has been a distinct division between the sexes. Through sheer definition there is a physical difference between the two but as time has passed there has been an indisputable recognition of the differences in personality and cognition. There are also undeniable differences in the life experiences had by the two sexes that

Stephen Jay Gould, a paleontologist and evolutionary scientist, in his essay “Women’s Brains” (1980), argues that previous claims about the intellectual superiority of men over women are based on misinterpreted experimental results and therefore hold no scientific significance.

Differences in brain structure between males and females result in important differences in perceptions, emotional expressions, priorities and behaviors. (*) Relationship traits, problem solving approaches, mathematical abilities, reactions to stress, language, emotions, brain size, pain perception, spatial ability and susceptibility to disorders are just some areas in which men and women react differently because of their differences in brain structure. (*) To some scientists and theorists these many influential biological differences between men and women make gender roles inevitable. (*)

There are various differences between genders; physiologically, psychologically, etc. Leaper (1991) conducted a study that examined age, gender, and partner differences. The experiment consisted of 138 participants, median age of 5 and 7 years old. Leaper recorded and quantified speech acts into four categories; collaborative (affiliate involvement and direct influence), controlling (distancing involvement and direct influence), obliging (affiliate involvement and non-direct influence), and withdrawing (distancing involvement and non-direct influence). He found that communication patterns between both genders were similar at the early childhood versus middle childhood. Leaper 's findings showed that gender differences progressed through time and communication patterns changed as the child grew. Developmental and contextual accounts of gender and social behavior cause these gender differences.

As early as the mid to late 1800’s research has been conducted to scrutinize the differences between men and women. Darwin was at the forefront with his findings in the On the Origin of

It is truly an in-depth scientific book on gender that is packed with different useful researches. I learned some relevant information that is applicable to my field of study, but understanding some topics were challenging. I overcame the challenges by doing additional reading on the topics. Despite the use of the biological and scientific lingos, Delusions of Gender is an educational read that will enlighten anyone who dares to give it a try. This book is also fitting for professionals in the social sciences because of the wealth of information that it provides. I would also highly recommend this book as a reference book for those with an appetite for different researches, observations, and biological and psychological findings. In addition, the book is well referenced with scholarly sources to support its claims. This book will help individuals to make informed decisions about gender differences, and also to be able to critically evaluate new findings before accepting them wholeheartedly. This book is also a timeless book because it serves as a platform for those who will come after in a quest to detangle the beliefs that men and women are “hard wired”

The idea that males and females are much more dissimilar than they are similar, the gender differences model, has been a part of media for years. The opposing view, the gender similarities hypothesis, states that in regard to psychological variables, the two genders are actually much more similar in most areas. This gender similarities hypothesis is supported by many studies, reviewed by Hyde in her article. Effect size, d, for gender differences is given by the mean score for females subtracted from the mean score for males divided by the average within-sex standard deviation. Negative d values favor females, and positive d values favor males.

As we all know, women and men are very different, exteriorly and interiorly. Our brains are wired differently, we process information differently, we react differently. Due to this fact, we multitask differently. Society normally says women have the upper hand when it comes to doing more than one thing at a time, and a lot of experiments can prove that statement to be true. In fact, I read quite a few that claimed that result but one specific example is an experiment I read on the Daily Mail website. Scientists in England conducted an experiment with 1,000 young men and women. They scanned each individual’s brain in an MRI machine and showed the differences. Females have stronger connections between the right and left sides of their

Also, in her article, Bonomo states, “males possess on average more than six times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence than females, while females have nearly ten times the amount of white matter related to intelligence than do males. One part of a male’s brain, the inferior parietal lobe, is larger than a female’s and is involved in spatial and mathematical reasoning, skills that boys tend to perform better than girls” (Bonomo, 2010); whereas, girls tend to perform better than boys in verbal and written language. Furthermore, “in 2007 a longitudinal study conducted by the National Institutes of Health demonstrated consistent sex differences in the speed of the brain’s maturation (Lenroot et al. 2007). It also showed that boys’ brains develop differently than girls’

Accordingly, there are two assumptions that certain scientists claim who are conducting research on sex and gender, namely a so-called ‘sex difference’ regarding (1) that all females and males behave and act differently according to their sex (2) psychological patterns are based on their biology and, therefore, genes (Caplan & Caplan, 2007). Both assumptions are built upon binaries and are rather alarming and very dangerous. Moreover, further issues with these assumptions are that (1) they argue through a calculated average referring to performances of participants which leaves out individual performances (2) it is rather unfounded hence genes can be changed and differ between individuals. Accordingly, both assumptions are based on biological

It contributes because woman at times can multitask and are more able to see the bird’s eye view then man. Meaning woman can handle many task and get them all done while men can only focus one to maybe two or three task and become overwhelmed after that. The bird's eye view comes from the fact that women tend to read thru instruction fully then complete a task. Men read each instruction and act we believe in action, while women like to think more from the higher ground with a bird's eye view. There was a television show that put men against women with instructions, the winner was whoever got done first. The men read each instruction and worked thru one step at a time meaning an ant eye view. The woman read the instruction fully first

An area of the brain that is generally larger in males than females illustrates this point. “Scientists working at Johns Hopkins University, recently reporting in the ‘Cerebral Cortex’ scholarly journal, have discovered that there is a brain region in the cortex, called inferior-parietal lobule (IPL)” (Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PHD). Essentially:

Male brains seem to be 8% to 13% larger in volume compared to a woman’s brain. Certain areas of the brain that are larger in men include the structures that play a role in controlling language, memory, emotion and behavior. Though men seem to have sightly larger brain, there seem to be no cognitive differences. Overall, researchers were unable to find any patterns that created a distinction between men and women. Multiple studies examined multiple structures in the brain including the volume of gray matter and the connections between different parts of the brain. All of these studies found similar findings. A very small percentage of these brains were exclusively male or female, while the majority of them were showed substantial variability between the male and female traits. This article concluded by explaining one finally study that studied the brain during activities that were considered highly gender-stereotyped activities. Once again, the findings were the same. Only 1.2% of these brains were exclusively male or female, while 55% had traits from both males and females. These findings play a vary important role in how society perceives males and females. These findings don’t support these socially constructed views. It seems that these differences in brain structures can also stem from how our society shapes the development of males compared to females. If men and women were treated equally throughout life, their may be less brains that are considered exclusively male or

It was the understanding of Paul Broca, that through the measurement of brain size one could determine the level of intellect an individual may possess, subsequently confirming his theories that men are more intelligent than women (Cryer, 2016). Furthermore, many scientists and medical professionals of the nineteenth century, believed in biological determinism and the male variability theory, and subscribed to the concepts of both Darwin and Broca (Shields, 1975).

Studies have also been carried out into whether or not there are differences between male and female brain size and whether this affects how we relate to each other in terms of gender. Simon Baron-Cohen believes that male brains are wired towards systematic understanding and females are wired towards empathy. In addition he says that this is not necessarily always the case but the majority are wired in this way: “Both sexes have their strengths and weaknesses. Neither sex is superior overall.” (Baron-Cohen, S. 2003).