Gender Differences

Are gender differences rooted in the brain?

Resources used to support "yes"

Men and women develop differently in many different areas. Men and women process information differently, and studies have shown that there is a physical difference in brain size between heterosexual men, homosexual men, and heterosexual women. All of th ese differences are physical while socialization involves more psychological aspects. There is also evidence that certain behaviors are concentrated within different ethnic groups which can be attributed to certain genes which cause these behaviors.

WWW

Apartheid of Sex: a manifesto on the freedom of gender.
Current academic opinion and research on gender. This document consists mostly of book reviews, but related to topic.
Berkeley Conference on Women and Language Cyberspace.
Why men are still dominant about selected topics, and how men and women interact.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Fidelman, U. (1995). Cerebral Hemispheres, Sex and Piaget Stages (Commentary on Fitch & Denenberg on Sex-Brain). PSYCHOLOQUY, 6, psych.95.6. 31.sex-brain.6.fidelman.
ABSTRACT: "Preliminary experimental findings suggest that a change of Piaget stage may be related to different developmental processes in boys and girls. At a somewhat later stage, the collaboration between the hemispheres increases."
Fitch, R.H. & Denenberg, V.H. (1995). A Role for Ovarian Hormones in Sexual Differentiation of the Brain. PSYCHOLOQUY, 6, psych.95.6.05.sex-brain.1.fitch.
ABSTRACT: "The role of endogenous hormones in differentiating the sexes is an area of continuing research. The bulk of findings in this field support the notion that mammalian sexual differentiation is primarily mediated by androgens of testicular origin and that the presence of these androgens in early life produces a "male" brain. In contrast, the female brain is thought to develop via a hormonal default mechanism, in the absence of androgen. Findings are reviewed which show that ovarian hormones also play a significant role in sexual differentiation, and that the process of ovarian feminization has a considerably later sensitive period than androgen-mediated masculinization."

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