Women are drastically underrepresented when it comes to executive jobs. For example, in the state of California only 10.4% of women hold the highest paid executive jobs, and 47% of companies contain only men in their boardroom. Based on these numbers, it appears that either companies are scared to put women in the executive positions or fewer women are qualified or skilled enough for the executive positions compared to men. However, there is also the possibility that the way the brain works differently for both genders plays a significant role. If the brain causes men and women to think differently it could cause men and women to have different priorities and excel at different skills. Therefore, I am intrigued with the question, are the male and female brain dissimilar? This is important to understand, because our brain is what controls us as humans. Understanding how the brain works for males and females will help us further understand each other.
Sandra Witelson is a neuroscientist who has spent much of her career studying the brains functions, and how they differ in women and men. In an interview done in, “"Science Suggests Men and Women Think Differently,” she explained her thoughts on the male and female brain. When asked about the significant differences in the male and female brain that she discovered through her research, she replied: “The very first one that I reported was that when a young boy is doing things relevant for reading, he is using one side of his brain. He uses the other side for non-reading skills. In a girl, there is much more of a bilateral involvement in these skills. So, in the normal six-year-old, the brain is organized to do the same task, but it's organized in a very different way.” In other words,...
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...ignificant evidence for my research argument indicates that the nature of gender/sex consists of a wide consensus. The latter is significant to original sex differences in brain structure and the organized role through sex differential prenatal hormone exposures through the term used in the article as (the ‘hardwiring’ paradigm). The article is limited to scientific shortcoming that presents neuroscientific research on sex and gender for it lacks an analysis that goes beyond the observed results. The article is based on neuroscience studies and how it approached gender, yet the article suggests that gender should be examined through social, culture studies, ethnicity and race. This article will not form the foundation of my research but will be used a secondary material. The neuroscience evidences will be used to support my argument and will be used as an example.
Men get paid higher than women although in most cases women are more educated than men. There needs to be equality. A.Problem: Despite these educational gains, women continue to lag behind men in employment, income, business ownership, research and politics. This pattern of inequality suggests that societal expectations and cultural norms regarding the appropriate roles for men and women as well as inherent biological differences between the sexes are limiting the benefits of women’s educational advantage.
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Connell: Chapter 4 “Sex Differences & Gendered Bodies”: I found this entire chapter quite intriguing, but I really appreciate the way that Connell approaches the ways in which males and females differ, and yet she also points out how there is no significant difference in brain anatomy and function between sexes. I found the statement by neuroscientist Lesley Rogers incredibly interesting, she states, “The brain does not choose to be wither a female or a male type. In any aspect of brain function that we can measure, there is considerable overlap between females and males” (p.52). This statement when paired with information about the affect social processes have on the body is mind boggling to realize, as Connell states, “biology bends to the hurricane of social discipline” (p.55). It is unnerving to think that I am merely a product of my society.
Oestrogen receptors in the brain are believed to cause gender-appropriate behaviour. Oestrogen, a hormone found in the female genital tissue, acts as a ligand and, by activating the oestrogen receptors found on the surfaces of brain cells, causes notable changes in behaviour. Professors at Yale University have studied the effects of oestrogen and found the hormone increases neural connectivity in the brain resulting in a more accurate memory. Turnham et al (2002) supports this as upon investigation...
In the book Men Are like Waffles and Women are like Spaghetti By Bill and Pam Farrel they explain the differences of male and female brains. The male brain is like a waffle, when you look down on a waffle you see little boxes. This is much like how a man 's brain works. He has many different boxes for different moments in his life such as work, family, sports, and sex. However, a woman 's brain works much like spaghetti, there are many different strands of noodle that can get lost in each other. It becomes very difficult to keep up with what a woman is thinking at one time, since they can skip from one thought to another without skipping a beat. However, when a man is trying to listen to a woman try to talk while jumping around from subject
The brain is divided into two hemisphere: the left and right side, both hemisphere have its own cognitive purposes which process difference method of intellectual mode. The speaking left hemisphere cannot name what the right hemisphere has just seen. (McGilchrist, 2009). The left and right hemisphere of the brain communicate through its corpus collosum given an individual the mental ability to perform properly. The mapping of a female brain is differ from a male brain. Its biological sexes of the brain can affect the process of information. Most people are dominated in one side of the hemisphere while other are well balance in both hemisphere of the brain. Subsequently, I will talk over about the left brain versus the right brain on how it impacts our ability to learn and briefly discuss about “Split Brain" Experiments by Roger Sperry.
As we discuss the articles of Anne Fausto- Streling, “The Five Sexes, Revisited” and Marjorie Garber, “The Return to Biology” in class we came to see how these two articles could bring up such controversy. As they question our perspective on human nature as we have always known it to be, from “The Five Sexes, Revisited” stating “absolute dimorphism disintegrates even at the level of basic biology” (176), to “The Return of Biology” saying “Society mandates the control of intersexual bodies because they blur and bridge the great divide” (184). We see many different aspects on how human biology or culture is more than what meets the eye. All I can begin to say is everything we, as the human species, do revolves around dimorphism no matter the questions or contradictions that may arise. The idea that only two sexes exist is still firmly maintained in our society as how things are suppose to be aka the “norm”.
Communication is an essential part of human life. People perceive things in a different way because of ethnic background differences, attitudes and beliefs, etc. These differences may affect our ability to communicate with our counterpart. Therefore, it is necessary to keep our mind open so that we can reduce the risk of communication breakdown. Men and women are different as everyone knows that. However, their differences are no just physiological and anatomical. Recent researches have concluded that there are remarkable differences between the two genders in the way their brains process information, language, emotion, cognition etc. Scientists have discovered the differences in the way men and women carry out mental functions like judging speed, estimating time, spatial visualization and positioning, mental calculation. Men and women are strikingly different not only in these tasks but also in the way their brains process language. This could account for the reason why there are overwhelmingly more male mathematicians, pilots, mechanical engineers, race car drivers and space scientists than females. On the other hand, there are areas in which women outperform men. Women are naturally endowed with better communication and verbal abilities. They are also effective than men in some of the tasks like emotional empathy, establishing human relations, carrying out pre-planned tasks and creative expressions (Kimura 1999).
It is proven that the male and female brains differ, but can one prove that it affects the behavior? Many scientists would agree that ones behavior is determined by his/her gender. Although others are convinced that social conditioning is the cause for the differences between the male and female, it is very unlikely that biological differences play no role in behavior. The male and female brains differ not only by how they work, but also on the size. For example, Natalie Angier and Kenneth Chang, neuroscientists, have shown that the women’s brain is about 10 percent smaller than the male’s, on average, even after accounting for women’s comparatively smaller body size. Three brain differences that affect ones behavior are the limbic size, the corpus collosum size, and the amount of gray and white matter.
What truly defines a man? What roles should men hold in society? According to Victorian society, men should be respectful, successful and well known, which often restricted men from enjoying the pleasures of life and revealing their true self. Both Victorian writers, Robert Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, depict the roles of men in their works, while making a critique about the roles that are set by men in society. In the narrative, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson and the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde, they explore the importance of duality as a matter of satiric exposition of what's wrong in Victorian society. Both writers aim at illustrating how the roles that men are expected to perform daily may lead them to create a dual identity in order to escape their restrictive life’s. Stevenson aims at depicting duality through the human nature of good versus evil that's presented through the characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In contrast, Wilde depicts duality by means of what defines earnest and transforming the word into a name, which becomes Jack’s second identity.
Sexologist are indecisive between gender explanations based on nature and culture. John Money’s he claimed, to divide pre- ad postnatal influences and attribute them to biology and culture respectively, since social influence enter the brain and are therefore also physiology.