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.”

Click here for full discussion

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

Today the Science Daily reports that language ability differences between boys and girls is finally proven NOT to be just stereotypes. Although researchers have long agreed that girls have superior language abilities than boys, until now no one has clearly provided a biological basis that may account for their differences.

For the first time — and in unambiguous findings — researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Haifa show both that areas of the brain associated with language work harder in girls than in boys during language tasks, and that boys and girls rely on different parts of the brain when performing these tasks.

Read the full article:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080303120346.htm

It shocks and frustrates me that some women still fight for the position that men and women’s brains are the same, that there is no difference between us emotionally or mentally. come on! if we keep sweeping our differences under the rug we will soon trip over them, and actually already have begun doing so. There are many many differences between us, AND THIS IS A GOOD THING. We need to understand and celebrate our differences, and learn how to work with them. Women should be proud of their differences and learn how to use them as the strengths they are. We are different from men, they are different from us. We are not the same but we are equal. let me repeat that…WE ARE NOT THE SAME, BUT WE ARE EQUAL.

This article below, one of numerous such writings, reinforces my position.

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/Books/2006/08/19/1764885-sun.html

Click Here for Full Article About “from The Female Brain”

those readers having heard my GenderSmart® presentation or read my book will be familiar with some of this, but it’s fascinating nonetheless!