Yoy'll probably never learn this in a Gender Differences course in the Women's Studies Department of any college, but men and women's brains handle spatial and emotional memories differently, and scientists have located two genes that affect that. Also more there about the different effects of Alzheimer's on men and women.
Camille Paglia made this point at her talk at Harvard a few months back, that so-called Gender Studies never go near the science of gender differences, preferring to believe that everything is just a "social construct." BTW, Paglia's lecture at Harvard can be read here (hat tip to Jill of Estate Vaults). Relevant excerpt:
"In the 1970s, women’s studies courses and programs were created in profusion....Women’s studies was assembled haphazardly and piecemeal, without due consideration of what the scholarly study of gender ought to entail. The victim-centered agenda of the current women’s movement was adopted wholesale, an ideological bias that neither women’s studies nor its successor, gender studies, has been able to shed. Furthermore because so many of the first women’s studies professors came from literature departments, science was completely excluded. But without a grounding in basic biology, neither students nor teachers can negotiate the tangle of nature and culture that produces human sex differences."
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