ByDavid DiSalvo,
Senior Contributor.
How many times have we heard the argument repeated, that women and men are different because our brains are different? Smaller or larger brain areas associated with certain behaviors, the argument commonly goes, puts the sexes at odds on everything from academic preferences to remembering anniversaries.
And this isn’t just a belief that spawns memes around social media, it’s also the topic of popular science books lining rows of shelves. Brain differences across the sexes is big business.
Neuroscience, however, would have us pause and ask harder questions. As is so often the case, the situation changes when we shift from first glance conclusions to less easily categorizable evidence.
