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!
Biological Differences
Gender differences in boys and girls
July 14th, 2008 by Jsanders in Biological DifferencesGender Differences as Seen by a Mom
July 6th, 2008 by Jsanders in Behavorial Differences, Biological DifferencesHear 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:
Do women really have better reading skills?
June 28th, 2008 by Jsanders in Biological DifferencesNot 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…
Communication differences in children
June 17th, 2008 by Jsanders in Biological Differences, Communication Style DifferencesA 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.
Society discourages entrepreneurship in women
June 15th, 2008 by Jsanders in Behavorial Differences, Biological Differences, Diversity, Women's IssuesDavid 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…
Gender differences and leadership
June 15th, 2008 by Jsanders in Behavorial Differences, Biological Differences, Communication Style DifferencesNew 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…
Gender differences - the math controversy
May 30th, 2008 by Jsanders in Biological DifferencesWorld 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:
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Girls are as good at math as boys given the proper environment.
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Males may have an edge in spatial thinking abilities, which are useful in math—and this advantage may be very ancient, evolutionarily speaking.
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Deep-rooted though this difference may be, females can surmount it with just a little work
Gender issues in girls sports
May 26th, 2008 by Jsanders in Biological Differences, Gender Stereotypes, Women's IssuesBoys 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:
May 24th, 2008 by Jsanders in Behavorial Differences, Biological Differences, Communication Style Differences, Gender Stereotypes
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.”
Gender differences - the brain
April 22nd, 2008 by Jsanders in Biological Differences, Communication Style DifferencesMedical 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



