While Harvard President Lawrence Sumners opened a can of worms for himself by suggesting that differences between the brains of men and women might explain the imbalance of woman in science, a psychiatry professor in San Francisco argues that the biggest differences between the men and women's brains are the time line on which they develop. Boys develop spaital skills earlier and girls develop language skills earlier. Taking these development differences into account in the design of educational curriculum might decrease all types of professional gaps that exist between genders in adulthood.
San Francisco Chronicle . Forthcoming "The Female Brain" by Louann Brizendine
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