Actually, there are "hardwire" differences. The biggest difference between a male brain and a female brain is that the corpus callosum - the thick band of neuronal fibers that directly connects the left hemisphere with the right hemisphere - is much larger in women than in men.
This means that in women, the left-brain and the right-brain "talk to each other" a lot more. So men find it easier to "compartmentalize" to do left-brain logical thinking without interacting with the right brain. Women find it easier to consult their instincts, intuition and feeling judgment along with logical judgment when thinking and deciding.
This is why women bring feelings into play more easily. It's an advantage when interacting with people, allowing them to be more sensitive and expressive with others.
And this is why men find it easier to be "mentally tough," allowing them to keep a cool head in pressured or stressful situations.
These gender-based differences vary from person to person, so the characteristics aren't always pronounced and can't be generalized to all men or all women.
2007-04-02 02:44:42
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answered by ? 7
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I have heaard that the thing about women having more connections between the two hemispheres of the brain was actually myth, based on a very few cases, and not verified since.
That's it's one of those things that gets out as fact, and is accepted without evidence.
The kinds of things that research has actually found are odd, and mostly fairly trivial.
They also vary within the sexes more than between the sexes. (That is, for each skill I"m going to talk about, there are men and women who have each more strongly than many of the other sex; but if you take all men and compare them to all women, you'll see a difference.)
So, if people learn a maze, and you then remove all the landmarks (things that uniquely identify the places in the maze), more women than men will get lost.
However, if you put the landmarks back, but double all the distances, more men than women will be lost.
If you ask: Look at this drawing of a 3 dimensional shape; which of these other drawings is the same shape, rotated? More men will do well at this sort of thing than women.
If you ask "In 30 seconds, name as many synonyms as you can to the word 'care'." Or, "Name as many words as you can think of that start with 'd'." then women, on the whole, will do better.
In other words, there are somewhat different ways of doing some things (such as navigating and figuring out where we are) that are SOMEWHAT correlated with sex, and there are little skills, not terribly useful by themselves, where one sex tends to do better.
Females, on the whole, by and large, do seem to be more inclined to verbalize feelings, but this may have as much to do with socialization than with brain differences.
2007-04-02 20:31:09
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answered by tehabwa 7
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There are a lot of differences, but they vary greatly according to every person and sometimes gender has no influence over these differences. But one thing is sure: the difference is set by the quantity of hormones (testosterone or estrogen) in a person's body. I've met masculine women who had a higher level of testosterone in their body and vice versa. So that explains it all. Genetics.
2007-04-02 09:44:32
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answered by Cheshire Riddle 6
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I think that women are more emotional thinkers and men are more logical thinkers. That's why men and women often have a tough time communicating thoughts and ideas to each other.
2007-04-02 09:35:21
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answered by vanhammer 7
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No apparent hard wire difference, but on average, women are more right brainers than men more left.
Women are better communicators and men are better with their hands.
2007-04-02 09:35:05
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answered by Edward Carson 3
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you can see it reflected on the daily behavior of both
2007-04-02 09:39:14
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answered by Anonymous
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