The Female Brain
“Being a woman, says neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, is like having giant, invisible antennae that reach out into the world, constantly aware of the emotions and needs of those around you,” says USA Today book reviewer Elizabeth Weise in her article about The Female Brain.
Brizendine, the founder of the University of California-San Francisco Women’s and Teen Girls’ Mood and Hormone Clinic, claims that the female brain is different from the male brain due to talents developed over eons of evolution that enabled us to understand the needs of our infants and to predict the actions of bigger and stronger men.
If Brizendine is right, then the empathetic nature of women kind obviously needs to play a greater role in certain “male dominated” fields such as drug research, policing and international politics.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t explain the failure of women who are/were already in those fields to change anything. Do Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, and Condaleeza Rice have male brains by some evolutionary accident?
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