Diana Carolina Martínez Martínez

Evidence: not so different in the end

Are boys better at math? Are girls better at language? The fact that fewer
women than men work as scientists and engineers, is it due to a question of
aptitude or culture? Psychologists have found evidence showing that boys and
girls or men and women differ very little (we're talking about differences that
would affect school or work) in how, and how well, they think.

 At the University of Wisconsin, Janet Shibley Hyde has compiled meta-

analytic studies on this topic for 10 years. Using this approach, which brings
together research findings from different studies, Hyde has managed to
merge hundreds of results into a single, simple.
Conclusion: there are more similarities between the sexes than differences
between the sexes.
 Psychological similarities

 Scientists at several US universities have examined the results of 100

meta-analyses (studies that analyze the findings of several
investigations in the same area) of gender differences.

The results have shown that a large part of the behaviors and attitudes of
both sexes coincide when it comes to taking risks, work stress and
morality. The similarities occur in various areas, from intelligence,
through personality and sociability, to personality traits or attitude towards
life. In addition, the points in common are independent of age and are
maintained over time.
Studies claim which since childhood
till adulthood, men and woman show
more similarities than different.
Women want to be loved so do men
 Men have 23 pairs of chromosomes, women
do too.
They share 22 of them. In physiologic conditions,
they differ systematically in only one pair, the
sexual one.
 Psychologist Janet Shibley Hyde, PhD, of the University of
Wisconsin at Madison says, according to her meta-
analysis, that boys do just as well in math in school as
girls. In reality, both sexes can perform excellently in any
subject, career or profession, it only depends on the tastes
of each one, the important thing is to do what you love and
it makes you happy to be excellent in any field in which
you work.
 Geer de Vries, director of the Neuroscience Institute at
Georgia State University, argues that our brains are not
male neither are female, and structural differences do
not necessarily cause behavioral differences
 Our hormones are the same. They function the same
ways and we all have the same hormones. There is
some important variation in hormone levels and
patterns, and there are some differences in how the
hormones interact with male and female bodies. But
aren`t male hormones, neither are female.