“In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.” Billie Jean King , professional tennis player While no one questions the various athletic activities girls have [...]
When Female Business Brains Leave
Well trained professional women are leaving the IT (information technology) profession despite the fact industry expectations of a 22% increase in jobs in the next ten years. According to Marsha Walton, a former producer of science and tech for CNN, the IT industry is losing the talents of career women in substantial numbers. They are [...]
When Pink is Selected Over Blue – the gender brain choice
Sometimes a fork in the road appears out of nowhere. When science arrived at the point of replicating conception, providing in vitro fertilization to women having difficulty conceiving and helping couples understand the inheritance factors of genetic diseases, there was a new medical road that could contribute to the health and well being of human [...]
Is the Male Brain Going to be Replaced by the Female Brain?
Now, that’s a thought that certainly raises comments and concerns. So much so, that 760 comments were recorded on The Atlantic magazine website as on June 22nd for the tantalizing article “The End of Men” by Hanna Rosin. This is a rather lengthy article discussing the social upheaval of role reversal as men have lost [...]
The Female Brain is Rock’in Financially
The men are confused. Music sales across the board are down substantially but female singers are raking in the bucks and male singers are trying to figure out why they’re not. According to Elysa Gardner writer for USA Weekend (your Sunday newspaper supplement) female singers are dominating the music market and here’s the proof. Last [...]
My Brain is Bigger than Your Brain
When science got around to measuring brain size the male brain had statistical evidence to solidify its position at the top of the list of intelligent creatures. Or so he thought. Basically the argument has been the male brain is bigger even when adjusted for the overall larger male physiology, a brain that weights approximately [...]