Talk:Gender differences

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[edit] split article

this article is created from splitting from article Sex_differences_in_humans, from this version [1] . Lara_bran 06:02, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Twisted?

Underr Psychology: Happiness, "Some women also have higher suicide rates because of depression or twisted ways of looking at themselves."

I don't think "twisted" is the appropriate word to use here. I've changed the phrase to "negative self-perception." That sounds far more professional. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.126.59.104 (talk • contribs) 00:01, October 18, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comments

"Some feminists see gender differences as caused by patriarchy or discrimination, although difference feminism argues for an acceptance of natural differences between men and women." - The fact that the "naturalness" of these differences is debatable is ignored in the second part of this statement.

The quote "He made them in his image: man and woman He made them" is inappropriate in the sense that it does not prove the claim that these religions believe gender differences to be made by God.

The part on "Intelligence" has two false links: link 1 and 2 are about other topics. In general, this section needs to be expanded to include other views as well.

I'm not sure about the structure of the whole article. Some subjects, such as the economy part, would fit better into an article about gender inequality than into that of gender differences, while some other parts seem to border on biologisms.

In general I would be more interested to see an enlarged debate on innate vs. culturally constructed gender differences!--MGrubic (talk) 01:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I just found out that I was wrong on the point about the false links. It's just that the links start at number 1 again at some point, that confused me. The point about expanding the part is still true though. --MGrubic (talk) 01:24, 4 January 2008 (UTC)