ways? How is it that formations of letters that were once used with such care are now flung around without anyone thinking about what they mean? We have become so good at using words to get what we want, for manipulation, control and power. Dr Louann Brizendine, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California wrote in the book “The Female Brain” that a woman uses about 20 000 words every day, while a man uses about 7 000. You have to wonder how many of those words are positiv...
stronger in subjects that include communication, observation, and processing of emotions. According to Louann Brizendine, author of The Female Brain, this is because “girls do not experience the testosterone surge in utero that shrinks the centers for communication, observation, and processing of emotion, so their potential to develop skills in these areas are better at birth than boys’” (Brizendine 15). This in turn causes women on average to be more interested and better at these skills. The brain’s
love. There have been more changes in the last 50 years than in the last ten thousand years, according to Fisher. Works Cited Brenner, Susan W. Cybercrime: Criminal Threats from Cyberspace. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2010. Print. Brizendine, Louann. The Female Brain. New York: Morgan Road, 2006. Print. Harrington, Brooke. Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2009. Print. Paumgarten, Nick. "Looking for Someone." The New Yorker. 4 July 2011. Web
Men and women are psychologically different in many ways. Some of these differences include competitiveness, goal orientation, self-confidence, motivation, mental toughness, incentives, preferences, etc. According to Anne Bowker in Sports Participation and Self-Esteem, Men have an advantage over women in sports because they're more aggressive and have higher self-esteem (2003). There has always been that stereotype of boys being more athletic than girls. The gender segregation of sports reflects