Female and Male Differences

A classic point of contrast between the sexes is communication. Although there are exceptions to every rule, men in general tend to be less communicative than women. Men prefer to talk more about events than feelings, and they talk far less than women do about anything.

In general, men talk to give information or to report. They talk about things -- business, sports, and foodùrather than people. They convey facts, not details. They are goal-oriented. They focus on solving problems and are less likely to ask for help or directions. Men compete. Women, on the other hand, talk to get information and to connect or to gain rapport. They talk about people rat

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intuitive, creative, and verbal. Men are known to have a ôone-track mind.ö If a man thinks about something from the feelings side of his brain at the same time that he is talking about something from the thinking side of his brain, he stops talking because he momentarily loses his train of thought; he can operate on either side, but not on both at the same time. The woman, however, is a mental multi-tasker who can watch a soap, talk on the phone, and listen for her baby all at once. These contrasting predispositions have some basis in physical differences, since during gestation, a male baby experiences a rush of hormones that forever destroy most of the connectors between the left and right sides of his brainùconnectors that the woman retains throughout life. Recent thinking, however, points up a few fallacies in this characterization. For one thing, some say, men are actually quite intuitive. We know this because they seem to have a built-in compass that tells them how to find their way when they are lostùwithout asking directions. As psychotherapist Thayer White points out, Because men do seem to have more difficulty with feelings, it has been often believed that men must not be in the right half of the brain. On the
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