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 metaanalytic 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 metaanalysis, 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.
