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Another fascinating book! This book looks at gender differences from the perspective of brain biology.
Caution: this book is not politically correct. After a Berkeley education, I was a bit uncomfortable with
the gender-based generalities discussed here. However, this research is empirical -- thus deserving of
consideration -- and conducted by a woman, presumably capable of treating her own gender fairly.
One particularly interesting topic in the book is the reason men (generally speaking) have a difficult
time verbalizing emotion. Interestingly, the research suggests men actually feel the emotions more strongly
than women but just have a particularly difficult time verbalizing or expressing the emotion. Another
interesting topic is that men can be born with a female-pattern brain and women can be born with a male-pattern
brain. You can even take a little test to see what pattern your brain is!
The only thing I found detracted somewhat from the book was the constant campaigning for "nature" over
"nuture" in the perenial debate. The author(s) seemed to be rebutting arguments that weren't there. I think
nature over nuture argument, as well as the recurrent admonition that the book discusses generalities and
aptitudes rather than absolute abilities/disabilities of the genders, would have been better set aside in a
separate chapter -- perhaps an introduction.
Highly recommended.
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