As an aside, I believe that

any gender gap in math and science is a social and not biological issue, just like the racial gap. Also, gender

roles are as much (or more, although no matter what my parents told me, I won't be able to give birth ) social

as they are biological.

An article that refers to the story I mentioned above (and evidence that I don't just

go around making stuff up):



http://www.iwf.org/issues/issues_detail.asp?Artic

leID=592

"Journalist John Colapinto also offers evidence that human sexual identity is not a social

construct. Indeed, Tom Wolfe has said that Colapinto's shocking book, As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who was Raised

as a Girl (HarperCollins), "stands as exhibit A" against the idea that nurture is more important than nature. It

is the heartbreaking story of a baby boy whom an ambitious doctor changed into a girl."


Interesting

excerpt:

"This illustrates a point often made by the iconoclastic feminist Camille Paglia: that men are happy in

what Paglia calls "People Free Zones." Paglia speaks of the object-loving male mind. Males, young and old, are less

interested in talking about their feelings and personal relationships than are women and girls. In an experiment at

Northeastern University, the conversations of college students in the cafeteria were secretly recorded. Women were

found to be vastly more likely to talk about intimates, close friends, boyfriends, and family members than boys

were.

In another study, researchers presented male and female students with two images simultaneously through a

stereoscope and asked them to say what they saw. The male subjects saw objects far more often than they saw people;

the reverse was true for the female students. Dozens of experiments confirm that women are much better than men at

judging emotions in a stranger's face. Men are slightly better at spatial reasoning. Females are better at verbal

skills. Well, why should this be the case?

A growing body of evidence confirms the experience of parents and

the wisdom of the ages that there are basic differences between the sexes, partic-ularly in preferences and

behavior, which are innate, hard-wired, and not the result of social conditioning. In the past few years, there have

been some exciting developments in neuroscience, genetics, endocrinology, and even evolutionary psychology,

pinpointing the biological correlates of some typical gender differences."





Interesting studies:



Gender gap in letters to Santa Claus:



http://people.morehead-st.edu/fs/s.reilley/Santa2.pdf#search='boys%20girls%20psychological%20 study%20toy

s%20gender'

Gender gap in toys:



http://www.stanford.edu/~zozo/gap/childhood/toys.html



Parental influence on gender roles:



http://gozips.uakron.edu/~susan8/parinf.htm

The

balancing act of nature vs. nurture:



http://reason.com/9903/fe.cy.sex.shtml




Again, I

would be the last to say that men and women are vastly different, but I'm not ignorant enough to say that they're

the same just because some activists forget the difference between equity and equality (aka being the same

(equality) vs. having equal rights, opportunities and potential (equity); I hope I have those correct).