Open AccessBiological and Learning Dialectics of Gender Differences
Author(s) -
Randa Abul-Husn
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.1029
Subject(s) - brain size , argument (complex analysis) , dialectic , psychology , correlation , developmental psychology , demography , biology , sociology , mathematics , epistemology , medicine , philosophy , endocrinology , geometry , radiology , magnetic resonance imaging
Early belief was that male and female brains were different as were their bodies. Women had the smaller brain size, and size being an indicator of intelligence they were believed to be less intelligent than men.(l) This biological argument for gender differences overlooked the correlation between the size of the brain and that of the body, whereby men's slightly larger brain is directly related to an average larger size of the body.