Articles in the Economist about Gender
Aug. 6th, 2006 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningThe Economist had a couple of articles on gender this week, which I thought might interest some of you.
The first is about differences between the sexes - try this link, but you probably need a subscription to see it. It looks specifically at how the brains of men and women work in different ways, as a result of male children recieving large does of testosterone. The stereotypes are generally true (according to the meta-stats) - men are better at spatial tasks, and more physically aggressive; women are better at social skills and "indirect agression" (which in the article sound to me like gossip). Interestingly, in 11-14 year olds, there is no difference in mathematical capability, but by 19-25, men are better at mathematical problem solving.
The interesting bit was in the way that men and women use their brains differently - quite radically so. Men use their "grey matter" more, women their white. Women are also using more of their brain more of the time - both temporal lobes, for instance, in situations when men only use one.
The other article was a leader - "How women won the sex war" (again, this link may not work! - more or less a rehashing of things they've said before, about how women are better placed to run corporations, due to their better adapted social skills.
Which means us blokes are all doomed.
The first is about differences between the sexes - try this link, but you probably need a subscription to see it. It looks specifically at how the brains of men and women work in different ways, as a result of male children recieving large does of testosterone. The stereotypes are generally true (according to the meta-stats) - men are better at spatial tasks, and more physically aggressive; women are better at social skills and "indirect agression" (which in the article sound to me like gossip). Interestingly, in 11-14 year olds, there is no difference in mathematical capability, but by 19-25, men are better at mathematical problem solving.
The interesting bit was in the way that men and women use their brains differently - quite radically so. Men use their "grey matter" more, women their white. Women are also using more of their brain more of the time - both temporal lobes, for instance, in situations when men only use one.
The other article was a leader - "How women won the sex war" (again, this link may not work! - more or less a rehashing of things they've said before, about how women are better placed to run corporations, due to their better adapted social skills.
Which means us blokes are all doomed.
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Date: 2006-08-06 09:40 pm (UTC)