Have you noitcied looking at women and men the differences? You must notice that they look different, but does mean that men and women think differently? If so, could these differences be hardwired in our genes and in our brains? According to research done in the last several years it has been revealed that men and women use different parts of their brains for language. Girls are nearly twice as good as boys on many word choice tests, and girls are far more likely to be topscorers on writing tests. Boys are seven times more likely than girls to score in the top 5 percent on science tests and twice as likely to score higher on math tests. This may go some way in proving why girls are flattered by romantic poems and letters. ( Or at least I am...lol )
What about sex?Research suggests after a study was done and several surveys were taking that of 37 cultures, men tend to value physical attractiveness and youth when choosing apartner, while women are more concerned about status, ambition and resources. What happens when social or gender barriers fall? Since 1960, the share of women receiving medical degrees has increased seven-fold,while the number receiving law degrees has jumped 17-fold. Today the majority of college students are women, who on the average receivebetter grades than their male counterparts.

How different are men and women? Well besides what has already been touched on, more or less all ways. The interesting differences can be found in the way we speak, ways of using language in everyday life. There seems to be a tendency -- and all of these are just tendencies; they're never absolute differences -- tendency for women to focus more on the connection versus distance dimension, men to be some what more attuned to whether a way of speaking is going to put them in a one-down position. And many other differences we can talk about --ways of valuing the role of conversation in a relationship, ways of using language to accomplish your goals in everyday interaction. Yes, and the differences that we looked at were differences in intellectual functioning. And there the short summary is that, on the average, men and women are not that different in their intellectual functioning, with a few very stereotyped exceptions. But in spite of the fact that they aren't that different on the average, men tend to out number women substantially at both the top end of the distribution, that is, among very talented individuals, and also at the bottom end, among the anti-talented individuals, if you like. From the stand point of evolutionary psychology, I guess the sex difference that most certainly has a genetic basis is in the realm of sex or romance. For example, men are less discriminating about sex partners, in some sense more polygamous, on average at least, than women. I think there are rather strong differences in preferences between men and women, romantically speaking. People also seem to lean toward one particular reason for the difference. They either are convinced it's all biological or they're convinced it's all cultural, and they tend to pattern by gender. It's usually the women who feel it's all cultural and the men have already decided to thinki t's all biological.

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