A recent study has dealt a significant blow to feminism, showing evidence of “striking differences” when it comes to gender and brain connectivity patterns and indicating that men and women are each better suited to different tasks since birth.
Since the 1970s, feminists have argued that stereotypical and perceived differences between males and females in terms of school and work performance are due mostly to conditioning and that they are born with the same equal, innate capabilities. A recent study has dealt a significant blow to this argument, showing evidence of “striking differences” when it comes to gender and brain connectivity patterns and indicating that men and women are each better suited to different tasks since birth.
University of Pennsylvania researchers analyzed and drew on about 1,000 brain scans, and determined that male and female brains are indeed wired differently.
Females have greater connectivity between the right hemisphere in charge of intuitive thinking and the left hemisphere in charge of logical thinking. This makes women more inclined to have better memories, be more emotionally and socially involved, and multitask successfully.
By contrast, males have greater connectivity from front to back of the same hemisphere, which makes them better at learning and performing any one given task. Men tend to have better perception and coordination.
Lead researcher and radiology professor Ragini Verma said, “I was surprised that it matched a lot of the stereotypes that we think we have in our heads.”