Male female differences
Posted here Monday, January 19, 2004 at 7:10:42 PM 
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According to Baron-Cohen these two brain types, with their particular strengths and weaknesses, largely determine the professions each sex tends to adopt. "People with the female brain make the most wonderful counselors, primary-school teachers, nurses, carers, social workers, mediators, group facilitators, or personnel staff," he writes. "Each of these professions requires excellent empathizing skills. People with the male brain make the most wonderful scientists, engineers, mechanics, technicians, musicians, architects, electricians, plumbers, taxonomists, catalogists, bankers, toolmakers, programmers, or even lawyers. Each of these professions requires excellent systemizing skills."
Comment: the integration of these into the economy and power is the next real question. The women's movement freed up women to play male roles, but at th suppression of the loving and relational side, to the detriment of men and women. How to build a healthy society with rich rewarding lives for all, 'tis the question.
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