Are Women Actually Smarter Than Men?

About the evidence of the female brain being significantly different from the male brain

A popular myth that indulges the sexists amongst us, is that men and women have very different kinds of brains — or at least that their brains are used very differently.

In 1992, American pop psychologist John Gray (not to be confused with British philosopher John Gray) wrote the famous book, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, with which he meant to say that men and women think and communicate quite differently, which in turn supposedly causes a lot of friction in households, at work, and in society at large. Gray hit a nerve apparently since his book sales in the US in the nineties were second only to the Bible!

The strange thing is that neither Gray nor other pop psychologists who took his claims and ran with them have conducted any research to back these claims up. Numerous scientists on the other hand have done the homework and sought to find if there was any truth to the ideas about male and female brain differences.

Again there is a grain of truth to be found on the basis of it all. The fact is that men’s brains are on average slightly larger than women’s brains — with the stress on “on average”. There are still plenty of women who have bigger…