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Page 1 of 4 Fact or Fiction?
It's the fashion right now to say that women have a different kind of logic to men (see Allan and Barbara Pease, "Why Men Don't Listen...", Ed First 2000).
The prevailing paradigm stait that male brains and female brains are different, and that these cerebral variations explain why men and women react differently to the same things.
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Touchy subjects:
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Although some people say there's a difference in the size of the corpus callosum, those who don't believe in the theory of the difference between the sexes don't see this at all (Cf KM Bishop and D Walhstern, Neuroscience and Behavioral Reviews, 21, 581, 1997).
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Some studies indicate miniscule differences in neurone quantities, while others don't pick up any. (B Pakkenbergb, EH Gundersen, J Com, Neurol., 384,312,199)
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Some say that men have better maths skills, because their right hemispheres are better developed. However, MRI testing shows exactly the opposite. The busiest zones seem to be the left frontal cortex and the left and right parietal spheres (La Recherche, Novembre 2002, Catherine Vidal), and that's regardless of sex (S Dehaene et al, Science, 184, 970, 1999).
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Several strong arguments run counter to the notion that there is an innate difference between men and women.
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These differences can't be detected before adolescence (Catherine Vidal, op cit),
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They are much more marked in white Americans than in any other ethnic community,
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Tests show that there has been a progressive decrease in the performance gap between the sexes since women have become full-fledged members of society and the workplace (Feingold, American Psychologist, 43, 95, 1998).
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