Don't dumb girls down
To all the people in this thread who seem so absolutely sure that the gender differences are strictly biological, do you fancy telling us what exactly makes you so sure? Last time I checked there was no evidence to support this idea.<p>Obviously there are easily observed physiological differences in brain structure and in the endocrine system etc, however it is a <i>massive</i> leap to go from that to asserting that observed differences in behaviour are down to this rather than down to societal factors.<p>Separating nature from nurture is notoriously difficult, and in a community which endlessly holds P=NP to be an open question, it is absolutely <i>laughable</i> to assume that these biological differences map one to one onto the observed behavioural differences, when there is such a huge and obvious confounding factor looming over everything.<p>We cannot all sit around waiting for six sigmas out of CERN before we can say we've found the higgs, and then just jump merrily onto simplistic biological arguments which happen to conveniently favour our social/political/economic hegemony.