Learn About The Genetic Differences Between Boys and Girls Now

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This slideshow comes from the book "Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need To Know About The Emerging Science Of Sex Differences" by Leonard Sax. Learn the truth about the unique differences between boys and girls. God created boys and girls to be dramatically different. Once you know the differences between boys and girls, men and women, you can be at peace not having to conform to political correctness. Boys and girls are definitely different. Learn the truth.

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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 BrainsBoy’s brains are radically different

from girl’s 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 People-

Centered 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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