Kathy Caprino wrote an excellent article i found on Article Snatch, discussing the opportunites and obstacles facing professional women both now and when the economy recovers. Women may make great strides during the comeback, but is it what they really want and need??? Some food for thought…

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Jenny Evans of Suite101.com writes a nice article about the ongoing debate addressing the source of gender differences - biology or socialization. If you’ve been following my work, you know that I believe nature is the primary motivator for gender communication and behavorial differences. And I believe socialization reinforces those differences and adds to them. Apparently Ms. Evans holds similar beliefs. Read article

Monica Lim writes about gender stereotypes on her blog, a perspective I am in partial agreement with. I agree completely with her definition of feminism, but I disagree with her downplaying of the impact of biology on gender differences. After studying gender issues and communication for 16 years, I believe most differences stem from biological or physiological sources. Yes, society’s expectations and programming adds to these differences and exaggerates them, but they had to be there in the first place! The secret is to accept our differences and not judge them as right or wrong, good or bad…and that’s where our challenges as a species lie.

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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.

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• 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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