Genetic Differences Between

Boys and Girls

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Boys and Girls Are Genetically

Hard-wired Differently
Needs
Abilities
Goals

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Myths About Boys and Girls

Boys naturally better at math and
science
Girls naturally more emotional
Girls naturally collaborative
Boys naturally competitive

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Baby Female Brain Balance

Use both brain hemispheres for most
things all the time
Stroke in left brain causes only 9%
decrease in verbal IQ
Stroke in right brain only 11%
decrease in verbal IQ

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Baby Male Brains

Boys brains are radically different
from girls brains and it is fairly
obvious when you observe how boys
interact with other boys and how
they act when they are alone.

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Greater specialization of right

and left brain hemispheres
Language, math, time, competition,
judgment and logic specialized in left
brain
Stroke in left brain causes 20%
decrease in verbal IQ
Stroke in right brain causes no drop
in verbal IQ
Creativity, music, orientation in
space, emotions, colors and images
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Negative and Positive

Emotional Expression
Boys and girls express emotions quite
differently when they are alone. More
importantly you see a huge
disconnect when boys are trying to
communicate with girls who use
words, expressions, posturing and
tonal inflections to send and receive
messages.

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Boys Are Emotionally Impaired

They use their Amygdala only
They cannot explain or describe
emotions
There is very little verbal processing
and speech

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Girls Live and Breathe Emotion

Girls can explain negative emotions in
great detail. They use:
Reflection
Reasoning
Language
They use their cerebral cortex after
adolescence.

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Navigation To Specific Target

Boys need exact linear directions,
very specific, down to the slightest
detail and they will not stop to ask
for directions while girls enjoy a
sensory experience that includes
smells, sounds, images and
landmarks to arrive at their final
destination and they are happy for
any assistance from anyone.

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Boys Just Need the Facts

Absolute directions
North
South
Exact distance
Hippocampus

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Girls Use Color, Sound & Smell

Girls Love to Have Landmarks
Smelled
Seen
Heard
Cerebral Cortex

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Good Parents and Teachers

Realize Every Child Is Unique
Teachers and parents are partners in
good education
Every parent is a teacher
Education begins at home

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Single-Sex Education Is The

Solution For Optimal
Learning For Boys and Girls
When social and peer pressures
involving male and female interactions
are removed, young people can then
focus on learning at an accelerated
rate when instructors use teaching
methods that are specific for the way
boys and girls learn differently.

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Teenage Girls Alcohol

And Drug Use
4 times more likely to drink than their
mothers.
15 times more likely to take drugs
than their mothers.
2004 National Research Council
Report: More likely to drink regularly
than boys

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Teenage Boys More

Involved in Drugs
FBI statistics for boys under 18
arrested for drugs show 50% increase
in last 10 years

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Boys Have Greater Difficulty

Than Girls In Schools
More are alienated and struggling
Dramatic drop in academic
performance in last 20 years.
12th grade boys write at same level
as 8th grade girl.
The percentage of boys going to
college is falling.
By 2011 it is projected that 60%
girls to 40% boys graduating
30% dropout rate mostly boys
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Brain Functions Are

Dramatically Different
Between Boys and Girls
Girls have much greater communication
between their two different brain
hemispheres across the Corpus Collasum,
the bridge between the two sides of the
brain and the underlying structures.

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Boys Are Warriors and Hunters

They use primitive areas of brain
Golobus Pallidus
Amygdala
Hippocampus
High IQ men have slightly larger
brains than low IQ men
The more men use their brains, the
bigger it gets

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Girls
Higher blood brain flow
Larger brain cells that have more
inputs
Use cerebral cortex, the most
advanced part of brain
Low and high IQ women same size
brain

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Math
There Is No Difference Between Boys
And Girls In Their Ability To Do Math
Correctly.

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Boys And Girls See The

World Differently

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Boys
Every male animal has a thicker retina
than females
More interested in hanging mobile
than smiling woman's face 2 times
more than girl babies
Boys hard-wired to be more
interested in moving things than
people
Better at orientation in space
Where is it?
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Girls
Women hard-wired to be more
interested in people than moving
things.
Retina of eye thinner than males
Babies more interested in woman's
face than mobile
Interpret facial expressions better
than boys
Better at object discrimination
What is it?
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Main Hearing Differences

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Girls
Hearing 80% better than males for
speech discrimination
1,000-4,000 HZ range
Hearing superiority increases with
age
Experience voices 10 times louder
than boys
Girls distracted by sounds 10 softer
than boys
When teaching girls don't raise your
voice and keep room quiet
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Girls
Music Therapy's Impact on Newborn
Babies
Girls babies released 9 days earlier
than non-music therapy girls
Women Humming Brahams Lullaby in
Hospital To Babies
Premature girl babies released 12
days earlier
Non-premature girl babies released
6 days earlier
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Boys
Humming Brahms and Music Therapy
Had No impact on Boys.

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Toy Preferences
Boys
Trucks over Dolls
Girls
Dolls over Trucks

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Drawing

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Most Teachers Are Females

Who Encourage PeopleCentered Drawings With Lots
Of Colors
Boys use four colors: Black, Gray,
Silver and Blue
Create non-people action pictures
Boys feel rejected by female teachers
Drawing is for girls

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Girls
Use 10 or More Colors
Red
Orange
Green
Beige
Browns
More sensitive to small color
changes
Flesh tones
Yellow
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Girls
Symmetrical Drawings Facing Viewer
People
Flowers
Pets
Trees

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Boys
Use Six Colors
Blue
Black
Gray
Silver
Action Drawings
Third person perspective form a
remote vantage point

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Playing
Boy
Run
Jump
Yell
Girls
Sit Still
Be Quiet
Listen

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Girls
Symmetrical Drawings Facing Viewer
People
Flowers
Pets
Trees

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Playing
Boy
Run
Jump
Yell
Girls
Sit Still
Be Quiet
Listen

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Sex
Male or female genetics most
important
Sexual orientation conditioned
response
Girls
Goal of sex is intimacy
Pleasurable sex equals a committed
relationship
Do not buy pornography
4-5% desire multiple partners
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Sex
Boys
Buy pornography
Rape committed almost exclusively
by men
25-30% desire multiple partners

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Peer Pressure

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Boys
Risky behavior when with peers for
the thrill of it
Enjoy taking risks
Impressed by risk takers
More likely to experience death or
severe injury in accidents

Drowning
Biking
Firearms
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Boys
Attribute injuries to bad luck rather
than lack of skill
Less likely to tell parents about injury
More likely to be around other boys
when injury occurs
Over estimate their abilities

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Girls
Not impressed by risk takers
Rarely indulge in risk-taking in
dangerous situations for the thrill
only
Under estimate their abilities

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Entrepreneurs
Boys
More likely to start own business
More become politicians
Most of software developers
Get paid more for same job
Girls
Most of elementary school teachers
Women did not ask for more money
Society teaches learned
helplessness
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