The Differences Between Men And Women

Over the course of history, men and women have be faced with a communication barrier. The differing communication skills between men and women present challenges that can lead to foreseeable problems in relationships. These problems arise out of differing purposes, styles, traits, and emotions that accompany communication between the two sexes. Unless an understanding is reached, these barriers may never be broken down.

Sex and gender play a big part in american society today and are often misconstrued. These two topics have become progressive as people are starting to express their gender and sexuality in ways other than what is and has been considered the norm. Many people believe that sexuality and gender are synonymous with one another. Gender is socially constructed while sex is biologically determined. In society’s past, Americans often strayed away from discussing controversial topics, but with the rise of different ways of addressing people, it is deemed more important to understand. Along with the blurred lines of gender and sex comes sexuality, who someone is attracted to sexually. When people stray from society’s heteronormative mindset, they are often faced with many more challenges than the average hetero man or woman. People often have the preconceived notion that if something does not concern them, then they should not be involved in it. A person who could be your neighbor, co worker, or even child, may have to deal with the troubles of people confusing their gender identity with their sex. While also facing challenges that deal with the sex of the person they choose to love. Learning the difference between gender and sexuality will open the eyes of many people and see how the two are different but relate to one another very much.

Thus, concluding that the explanation of biological, psychodynamic and learning approaches does influence on gender development. Each of these approaches explains how gender is developed in their own way. From the biological approach, we found out that gender differences are seen as resulting from sex differences. In other words, women and men act, think and feel differently because of differences in how their brains work. These brain differences may result from chromosomal differences and may also be the result of hormonal differences.

Sex is defined as “the average, reliable, biological differences between males and females” (Auleb 1). One biological difference between males and females is in external genitalia: males have penises whereas females have vaginas. Sexuality refers to one 's sexual orientation, sexual behaviors, and capacity for sexual feelings (YourDictionary.com). Someone who is not sexually attracted to anyone may identify themselves as asexual. And sexual identity is one 's conception of themselves in terms of to whom they are sexually and romantically attracted, if they experience sexual or romantic attraction at all (Wikipedia.org). Someone who is attracted to people regardless of gender may identify as bisexual, or as pansexual if they do not adhere to the belief that there are only two genders.

Men and women are sexually dimorphic: they possess characteristics that differ on average for males and females of a given species. These attributes can be physical, but are also seen in behaviour. This is also known as a sex difference. Given that differences in behaviour between the sexes have long been the subject of social discourse , it is paramount to examine to what extent these differences are dependent on society, or whether they have a basis in biology. Here, it is beneficial to observe the behaviour of children, instead of relying on self-reporting- this provides empirical evidence for a sex difference. They will not have been exposed to as many potentially gender-shaping stimuli as adults have, and so their observation can provide more accurate results when examining phenomena that cannot normally be seen. Therefore, it is also of particular use to investigate why some children show more gender-typical behaviour than others. As all behaviour is controlled by the brain, the terms “sex” and “gender” will be used interchangeably, despite some convictions that the term “gender” has more social connotations than the term “sex”.1

A study shows that girls are better at situational problems and memories from the past and that boys are better at task that are repetitive and deal with metal rotation, also pattern predictions using objects. Multi tasking can be a hard thing to do it is said that girls are better at multitasking than boys. Boys need to take there time and do one thing at a time. Social context is another thing that girls and boys do much differently girls tend to be better at social thinking and interactions. Will men tend to rely on themselves for things. As humans we have a lot of different emotions. Women and girls have better time showing and understanding emotions. Men and boys have a harder time with this because they think logically. Pain is something that everyone experience in their lives. Pain comes from the Amygdala which is part of our brain. The right part of the Amygdala is activated for men which has more connections to external functions. The left side of the Amygdala is activated for woman which has for connections to internal functions. Normally girls have a better memory than boys they are better at recalling words, names, faces, pictures, and objects. Boys are better at patterns and recalling memory from a short time period. I have learned a lot doing this science fair project and I hope learn more about this topic in my life and have other people learn what the steps are for a memory and what it takes to

Some of these gender roles and stereotypes have been created due to the differences in physique, thinking, personality, and behavior that is actually present between men and females. Physical differences are more visible to the eye due to the distinction between primary and secondary sex characteristics for each gender. Males have testes, deeper voices, a bigger body type, and more facial hair, where as women have a smaller body, higher voices, ovaries, and wider hips. (Rathus, 2010, p.448). Cognitive differences have to do with the brain and the way men and women

The authors discuss how “girls and boys tend to have different cognitive strengths and weaknesses.” Specifically, girls excel at tasks relying on verbal and

Many people seems to like when someone else are interested in the same thing they are into, they are comparing the similarities the other person has to themselves. In my research I had learn the different ways people view their similarities to one another and what men and women view similarities to each other. The researchers that had wrote journals and had profession over similarities are Pieternel Dijkstra (department of Psychology similarity of men and women), Lynne Hall and Sarah Woods (University of Sunderland, UK, University of Hertfordshire, who wrote The Importance of similarity in Empathic) Interactions, Richard L. Moreland and Robert B. Zajonc (Exposure Effects in Person Perception, Familiarity, Similarity, and Attraction). The final two researchers that I had read was R. Matthew Montoya (who wrote a study journal over the social and personal relationships), and the final journal written by Gina C. Gonzaga and Belinda Campos (Similarity, Convergence, and Relationship Satisfaction in Dating and Married Couples.)

Psychologists determine significant gender differences on personal events women tend to remember more. Specific results indicated that women excelled in verbal memory tasks, such as remembering words, objects, pictures or everyday events, and men outperform women in visuospatial processing (Association for Psychological Science 2008).

It’s interesting how many researchers found what they were looking for, as this has been common in research, science, and even philosophy throughout history. Freud, who came up with the idea of an Oedipus complex, based his theories of women on a few upper-middle-class women in Vienna suffering from psychological disorders. He based his findings on men on an even smaller sample. Freud wasn’t the only person. Much like how many brain researchers “find exactly what they are looking for, and what they are looking for are the brain-based differences that explain the observable behavioral differences between adult women and adult men” (Kimmel, 35). Since these craniologists believed that men and women were different and that men were better, they compared men’s and women’s test scores. Women did better, so they

Many previous research studies show that there is a difference in the episodic memory of males and females. According to a study done by Rehman and Hertitz (2007), women were able to recall more faces (of both males and females) than men. This was true whether the faces were male or female faces.

Dr. Laura Allen has spent years studying the brain tissue of both boys and girls. She said, "As I began to look at the human brain more and more, I kept finding differences, and about 7 or 8 of the 10 structures that were actually measured turned out to be different between men and women" (Men, Women). Basically, it is best to always try to learn about human nature, that way we can educate people to prevent them from misusing the information. She claims, "knowledge we get is better, we can alter our education system for more equality" (Men, Women).

Men and women have distinct differences in communication styles. Women are categorized by being more discussion oriented, while men are more action oriented. Depending on home environment and the way parents raise men and women, men sometimes are the ones who communicate most. Men who are raised around women are more apt to become more in touch with their sensitive side leading to being able to express their feelings more freely. Men and women are taught, through childhood guardians, to soar in different areas, with public awards to keep these goals desirable. Females are trained to demonstrate greater expressions of emotion, while males are taught to be solid and expressionless. Male belligerent and ruthlessness contradicts with the female desire to collaborate and avoid conflict. Men and women have communication differences, because of these early patterns that form during childhood and set into adulthood. There is many different communication styles between male and female but it helps each other to find their own personality, benefits on building connections between friends, and it keeps the wheels turning in marriages.

Gender differences is an ongoing debate which contains arguments that gender differences are caused by different biological, or social differences. Both arguments are filled with controversy and have been subjected to different theories that have stemmed from various research with an attempt to articulate and explain the causes of ones gender and how their differences manifest into either different social realms, or scientific biological realms.