05-28-2010, 11:02 PM
Boys and Girls Difference in Skills
Females score higher in skills related to speaking, reading, writing and spelling, while boys have a better spatial imagination. In studies boys were able to mentally rotate objects better than 80% of the girls. Not surprisingly, more boys study engineering and architecture. The degree to which the way parents raise boys and girls may influence their developing brains is still an open debate among scientists (Higgins).
Regarding humor, when questioned, men had said that they wanted their partner to appreciate their jokes, whereas women wanted to be with someone who would be able to make them laugh (Nicholson). In 1996 Robert Provine, professor of psychology examined almost 4,000 personal ads in the US and noticed that women were looking for someone who would make them laugh twice as often as offering to do the same. Men offered to make the woman of his choice laugh a third more than requesting it.
No doubt in the coming years there will be more subtle differences and similarities between men and women, and between boys and girls that will be discovered and will throw further light on our understanding about the gender gap.
Females score higher in skills related to speaking, reading, writing and spelling, while boys have a better spatial imagination. In studies boys were able to mentally rotate objects better than 80% of the girls. Not surprisingly, more boys study engineering and architecture. The degree to which the way parents raise boys and girls may influence their developing brains is still an open debate among scientists (Higgins).
Regarding humor, when questioned, men had said that they wanted their partner to appreciate their jokes, whereas women wanted to be with someone who would be able to make them laugh (Nicholson). In 1996 Robert Provine, professor of psychology examined almost 4,000 personal ads in the US and noticed that women were looking for someone who would make them laugh twice as often as offering to do the same. Men offered to make the woman of his choice laugh a third more than requesting it.
No doubt in the coming years there will be more subtle differences and similarities between men and women, and between boys and girls that will be discovered and will throw further light on our understanding about the gender gap.