Posted: Jan 28, 2019 5:02 pm
archibald wrote:In other words, my starting position (which I am not wedded to) is (a) that The Gender Equality Paradox is a 'thing', it exists, and (b) that at least part of the explanations for it are innate/biological differences between the sexes.
Whether it is a thing or not, and I'm not arguing either way, one thing I'm curious about is why the mean - or its standard deviation, which affects what goes on at the extremes - of any metric would be expected to be identical between men and women.
Having a Y chromosome and consequently bathing the growing foetus and its brain (as steroid hormones can apparently cross the blood brain barrier easily) in a vat of different hormone concentrations makes quite a few differences to the body.
So would it not be unsurprising if men and women were different in a variety of brain/mind respects as well as the more obvious physical ones?