The Eide Neurolearning blog reports a Cincinnati Children’s Hospital study that indicated intelligent boys and girls use different pathways in the brain for verbal comprehension and learning. They can get to the same place, but via different processes. Men and women are different!

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Hear hear! A personal blog entry by a psychology and education student with four children that describes, in detail, the differences she saw in her boy and girl children. Read it and decide for yourself:

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Not sure if this article truly answers the question posed. A big study at UC Riverside says the size of the brain is more relevant to reading skills, not gender. Read for yourself, does this answer the question for you? Laurie Lucas writes for the Press Enterprise…

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A Northwestern team has found that boys and girls (ages 9 to 15) have different communication patterns and styles. They respond to language tasks differently. Whereas girls abstract language information in a similar fashion whether they listen or read words, the accuracy of boys’ responses depended more on the patterns of activation of their auditory (listening to words) or visual (reading words) cortices.

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David Nicklaus in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch explains a recent study:

“The researchers tried an experiment. They presented some business students with articles that described entrepreneurs in typical fashion, and others with articles that were gender-neutral. The women who read the gender-neutral version expressed much more interest in becoming entrepreneurs themselves.”

Read the full article to learn how our language affects young girls relevant to starting their own businesses…

New book out “Leadership and the Sexes” by Michael Gurian compares men and women and discusses how gender differences benefit business. The Daily Star recounts an article from Forbes.com…

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World Science has an interesting article today about the controversial debate about math ability in women compared to men. Remember Lawrence Summers of Harvard lost his job over this. I’ve always claimed that what he said was true, just clumsily articulated at the wrong place and time.

Basically scientists now say girls can easily make up biological differences in spatial thinking. I’ve been preaching that for years too.

Here’s a peek at the article:

• Girls are as good at math as boys giv­en the prop­er en­vi­ron­ment.

• Males may have an edge in spa­tial think­ing abil­i­ties, which are use­ful in math—and this ad­van­tage may be very an­cient, ev­o­lu­tion­ar­ily speak­ing.

• Deep-root­ed though this dif­fer­ence may be, fe­males can sur­mount it with just a lit­tle work


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Boys and girls are different - we all know this - yet researchers who point out the gender differences are unfairly described as “controversial.”

In a forthcoming book Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women’s Sports, the American writer Michael Sokolove explores why young female athletes are more injury prone than their male counterparts. But the best part of the article is at the end…

In the course of his research, Mr. Sokolove discovered some startling facts:

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Interesting discussion about gender differences posted on the blog for First Community Church of Columbus Ohio. Here’s an excerpt:

“We found that we couldn’t go very far with generalizations about gender without running into two other factors - individual differences and family of origin. Using the apt analogy of a three-legged stool contributed by a participant, we ended up feeling that the formation of each person stands on those three legs; gender, individual personality traits, and the family in which you grow up.”

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Medical evidence shows that the female brain has four times as many connections between hemispheres of the brain as that of a male. A woman not only processes information four times as fast, she also utilizes both sides of the brain, tapping deeply into the right brain of emotion, experience, and reward behavior.

Does this mean women are more intelligent than men? Absolutely not, just that women process information and make decisions differently.

For the whole blog posting see http://michelemiller.blogs.com