Dialogue from childhood:

— Why do male and female athletes compete separately?

- Because men are naturally stronger and faster, women simply would not have a chance in joint competitions...

— Why are chess and checkers competitions also held separately for men and women?

What qualities with the epithet “feminine” do you remember first of all? Surely this is " feminine cunning», « female cunning», « Woman's intuition", "feminine flair". What about the “female mind”? Perhaps with irony, along with “female logic”. Of course, now in decent society it is not customary to raise the topic of intellectual differences between the sexes, but between us girls it is possible to be honest.

Why is the percentage of female scientists so small? Not scientific workers, but scientists, researchers, discoverers? Of course, everyone will easily remember Sklodowska-Curie or Sofia Kovalevskaya, but, you see, the few lady scientists are remembered because they are a rare exception.

You can, of course, nod to the list of Nobel Prize laureates, only if you take the nominees out of the brackets “ Nobel Peace Prize” and laureates in the “literature” category, there will remain, frankly, a sparse number.

This situation is often explained by the lower social status of women who lack opportunities for education, development and self-realization. But for almost a hundred years now there has been no sign of any oppression of the weaker sex in developed countries; all paths of development are open. Ladies stars of stage, screen, podium – as many as you like!

But with the female stars of the microscope and the test tube, things are still there, female scientists are in the minority. Why, even the ratio of the number of representatives of both sexes playing “What? Where? When? "Speaks for itself. It turns out that men are smarter after all? Let's figure it out.

We measure ourselves by intellect

At one time, the question “who is smarter?” was akin to the question “who is more beautiful? " or "who is cuter? " After all, in order to compare, you must first measure, and there was simply no way to measure “smartness.”

But finally, at the beginning of the last century (more precisely, in 1916), scientists were able for the first time to measure the numerical expression of mental abilities. You probably already guessed that we are talking about the now well-known intelligence quotient or IQ. After this, the question “who is smarter” acquired quite measurable numerical specificity.

Of course, scientists did not miss the opportunity to answer the eternal question of who is smarter than a man or a woman. Fortunately, the times of aggressive political correctness had not yet arrived, and it was possible to compare the intellectual abilities of representatives of different sexes and races.

Large-scale testing was carried out on representative groups of both sexes, after which the average IQ values ​​were general and compared between groups. The results obtained were quite expected (for men) - the average IQ value of the stronger sex was 2-4 points higher than that of the weaker sex.

It would seem that the issue has been resolved and the topic can be closed. However, constructive criticism of the research methodology soon appeared.

Lies, damn lies and statistics

You are probably familiar with the aphorism in the title. Indeed, sometimes the result of statistical research very much depends on the chosen calculation method. So in this case, to change the result it turned out to be enough to change the methodology.

The scientists were asked the question: what would happen if we compared not the average male and female intelligence, but the intelligence of the average man with the intelligence of the average lady. Same? But no.

Everyone remembers the method of determining the arithmetic mean from school: all values ​​are summed, then the resulting number is divided by the number of values. By performing similar actions on IQ, we get the average value of the intelligence quotient. But in order to determine the intelligence of the average man or the average woman, this method is not suitable. Let's understand it with an example.

Let's imagine that we have two groups of subjects A and B:

• Each person from group A has 100 rubles in his pocket;
• And in group B, everyone got 100 rubles, except one. We will give one subject 300 rubles.

If we calculate the average in the usual way from school, we get that the average amount of money for each subject in group A is 100 rubles, and in group B 120. It turns out that, on average, subjects in group B are richer than subjects in group A by 20 rubles.

But we know from the condition that this is not the case, that almost all subjects B have the same amount of money as subjects A, one single “oligarch” B introduces a significant disturbance into the picture of the distribution of banknotes.

To avoid the influence of small groups with unusually large values ​​of the indicator under study, the median method is used in statistics. Let’s arrange all the values ​​“by height”, just as boys and girls are arranged in physical education class. And then we’ll see what value we get clearly in the middle. Obviously, in both groups the average values ​​will be the same - 100 rubles.

Having applied this method to compare male and female intelligence, it was found that the intelligence of the average man and the average woman over the age of 20 is almost the same, the difference does not exceed the statistical error.

As for the age group under 20, the average girl turned out to be half a point smarter than the average guy. Why were the results of comparing averages so different?

The male average intelligence value was “pulled” upward by a relatively small group of males with a very high IQ. Yes, there are more geniuses among the stronger half, but there are also more mentally ill people (but they forgot to count them during the initial testing), but how often have you heard about female serial killers or maniacs?

This phenomenon is due to the fact that males are a testing ground for evolution. Among them, both successful evolutionary “innovations” and obvious genetic marriage are more common. By the way, this is also due to the fact that many genetic diseases (for example, hemophilia) are characteristic only of males.

But tested and proven useful evolutionary solutions are assigned to women. This explains why smart women are loved by men; such ladies are the darlings of evolution. Do you doubt that they love you? In vain, but more on that below.

So who is smarter?

So, we found out why the average man is no smarter than the average woman, and also found that the percentage of geniuses is small. Why are there so few female scientists? Here’s why: the minds of both are the same, but representatives of the sexes use it completely differently. To understand the differences, it is necessary to turn to distant antiquity. What did male and female humans do in prehistoric times?

The man hunted a mammoth, explored the territory, and fought the enemy. The wife cooked mammoth meat, sewed clothes, and dried scalps. The male mind is aimed at research, finding solutions, solving life's riddles.

The weaker sex is better at solving repetitive problems of the same type. It does not at all follow from this that someone’s mind is better or worse; both types of intelligence work in symbiosis, effectively complementing each other. Men explore, discover, conquer, their fighting friends master.

Because of this difference in the use of one’s own mind, legends arise that men do not like smart women. This is not entirely true, one might even say not at all true. Naturally, men love smart women, and not very smart ones, and even very stupid ones - in general, anyone.

As they say, all candy wrappers are different in taste and color. What men really cannot tolerate are women who are smart “like a man,” that is, those whose minds are “tuned” according to the male type.

Let's say right away the most important thing: women are no stupider than men, the intelligence of men and women is generally equal. This is the first. Second: this only applies to the work or study space. As soon as a woman moves into the space of her personal life, her intellect is quickly replaced by emotions and completes its work. Third: it seems that this is not a biological feature of women, but a cultural factor: many modern men like to see women being fools, women show it to them, and modern culture allows such behavior by women.

Now in more detail and quite seriously.

Based on tests that measure intelligence, on average men are slightly smarter. Smarter, but not much - not so much that this would be the basis for far-reaching conclusions. In any case, there are a large number of women who confidently outperform most men in the competition of intelligence.

According to Wikipedia, the smartest person in the world is a woman, Marilyn Vos Savant, an American writer, playwright and journalist. According to other sources, the smartest woman on the planet is Bulgarian Daniela Simidchieva: she has 5 master's degrees, an IQ of 192 and 3 children. It is difficult to say which of them is really smarter, since testing gives different results in different years: Savant’s IQ ranges from 167 to 230.

Over the past 100 years, women have been catching up with men in IQ. If a hundred years ago in most countries women lagged behind men in general intelligence by an average of 5 units, then the gap gradually decreased, and today in many countries women are already ahead of men in intelligence (researcher - Professor at the New Zealand University of Otago James Flynn).

Data for Russia: the intelligence level of men is 100.01 points, women 99.86.

As for not the “general temperature in the hospital,” but the most outstanding indicators, the number of men who showed the level of “genius” turned out to be almost 5.5 times more than women. In terms of “highly educated” level, men also outperformed women, although in this case there were only twice as many men. A study of more than 100 thousand students conducted by Canadian professor John Philip Rushton showed that the IQ of his female students was 3.64 points lower than that of his male students. On the other hand, among men there are more people with serious intellectual disabilities, including outright fools.

These data are further confirmation of the theory that evolution experiments on men, and invests everything more proven in women. Indeed, among men there is greater variation: men are more often geniuses and more often mentally retarded. On the contrary, the intelligence of women is distributed more evenly: among women there are few intellectually outstanding, but also fewer and lagging ones.

Interestingly, increasing the level of testosterone (male sex hormone) improves intelligence and spatial (topographic) thinking, and this data is true.

It seems that measuring oneself by “intelligence in general” is not the smartest thing to do. When responding to requests from practice, you need to be extremely specific when talking about the strengths and weaknesses of the male and female minds in certain situations. Perhaps a young man can cope with the work of a cashier no worse than a girl, he is smart enough, but he does not have enough patience and perseverance to sit behind a cash register day after day, and he will begin to make mistakes. There are a number of jobs that men do worse than women (and vice versa), and it’s hardly worth reducing everything to the strength or weakness of the mind. For practical tasks, it is more important to understand which problems are better solved by a man, which by a woman, and how a particular young man or girl knows how to manage his head.

It is curious that the same Daniela Simidchieva, who has 5 master’s degrees, does not know how to earn money at all, and they do not hire her. Her head is not focused on earning money.

Simidchieva says: “I have qualifications as a production engineer, an English teacher, an electrical engineer, and I have five master’s degrees in science. But as it turns out, in Bulgaria, employers don’t want smart employees to work for them. Even in those days when I had job, the highest salary I received did not exceed $150 a month. I don’t know how to sell myself!”

What is the best thing for a woman’s mind? The female mind specializes in everything related to human relationships. If we take the sphere of relationships, or more precisely, the solution of operational issues in relationships, then here women are definitely smarter. Women feel better about their interlocutor and more accurately predict the development of relationships - which, in fact, is measured not so much by IQ as by level.

However, even if in a relationship we are not talking about the “here and now” situation, but about issues of relationship strategy, then men are already better oriented here. Why? Because here you no longer need to feel, but to think. Moreover, in business situations related to conceptual thinking and making responsible decisions, men usually act smarter. There are several reasons for this.

Firstly, women's thinking is not so reliable; it falters more easily under the influence of emotions. A woman can be very smart, but she is unreliably smart - her thinking, her mind often fails, and she is led by emotions. It is known that women are usually more emotional, and emotions turn off the head.

An experiment was conducted at the Moscow Institute of Psychology. They took a man: Candidate of Sciences, 35 years old, IQ - 160. They measured his level of intelligence when beautiful ladies walked around and lightly touched him. He showed an IQ of 80. Then a 30-year-old lady with an IQ of 155 took part in the experiment. Men from the club’s bodybuilding club walked around her and danced a striptease show. IQ - 75. However, it is unclear whether such a decrease in intelligence occurred in connection with sexual interest or whether people were simply distracted by touching and dancing?

Secondly, thinking is only a tool that produces results only when it is used. It’s one thing to be smart (smart), it’s another thing to turn on your head and use your mind. You may have a car with the ability to drive up to 250 km/h, but a lover of a quiet ride, or even more so a lover of walking, will move slowly. The highest achievements in the intellectual activity of a particular person say little about his everyday intelligence. A person can have a very high IQ, but if he doesn’t like to use his head or doesn’t think it’s right (“you need to be able to turn off your head!”), then in many situations he will turn out to be simply inadequate. In particular, most women make excellent use of their minds at work when management requires it, and turn off their heads when the working day ends: it is more convenient and pleasant for a woman to live with her feelings.

During IQ testing, the girl will use her head and show excellent results. And when she leaves the table and starts chatting with her friend, she will turn off her head and start worrying about stupid things. Question: So what is her intelligence really? It seems that talk about “intelligence in general” is not entirely serious.

Unfortunately, modern culture insists that men need to think, while “women don’t have to think.” The desire of men to feel their intellectual superiority also works in the same direction: a girl who plays a bit of a fool is more attractive to many men, and girls take this into account. As a result, even if women, in general, are in no way inferior to men in their intelligence, in practice, in many situations, girls treat the need to think philosophically and do not always use their minds...

The question of the superiority of the male mind over the female mind is periodically raised in scientific circles. Confucius also claimed that an ordinary woman has the mind of a chicken, and an extraordinary woman has the mind of two chickens. However, the data of modern medicine show that girls have something to boast about, besides their good appearance. Experiments conducted in the UK and the USA have proven that they have a very developed ability to remember and reproduce information.

Elena Guryeva / “Health-info”

Recently, pundits are increasingly coming to the conclusion that gender differences do not lie in the fact that men are smarter than women, but in the fact that representatives of the opposite sexes each think and reason differently. And these differences are not always in favor of the stronger sex.

Does “girl” memory exist?

A recent study conducted by British scientists, in which 4.5 thousand people from 49 to 90 years old took part, demonstrated that women do not have a “girlish” memory, as was commonly believed. Ladies, unlike gentlemen, remember everything - both the anniversaries of significant events and the details of “that same argument three months ago.”

The experimenters base their conclusion on the results of a test used to identify the degree of dementia (senile dementia). The subject is shown six fields, one of which is colored, the rest are empty. Then they show six fields again, all empty. You must indicate where the color field was last time. Then the configuration gradually changes and the task becomes more complex. In almost all tasks, the ladies turned out to be stronger than their male opponents.

It is usually believed that the fair sex has better developed verbal information, while the stronger sex has better developed spatial information. Nevertheless, British researchers have shown that women are also ahead of men in memory tests in the spatial dimension.

The findings of American psychologists correlate with the results of this study. In the course of their research project, it turned out that the diagnosis of “senile” is increasingly being made to older gentlemen. Statistical analysis of the data showed that problems of various types that arise with age, relating to intellectual capabilities and memory, arise to a greater extent among representatives of the stronger half of humanity. Further research revealed that brain dysfunction is more common in the early stages in the male population.
An early stage of dementia (dementia) is when patients sometimes forget their daily or weekly tasks that they have to do. This may apply to housekeeping, visiting sports and gyms, etc. Experts note that many people consider such forgetfulness to be a completely normal manifestation of age. However, memory lapses, even at the everyday level, are evidence that the brain is sending alarming signals about problems that have arisen.

Thus, it turned out that men's memory is much weaker than women's. Now many scientists are confident that women's ability to remember and reproduce information is significantly superior to men.

Men are theorists, women are practitioners

Where you need to quickly perceive details and frequently switch, women show greater efficiency than men. Therefore, employers often invite girls to positions such as secretary, accountant, operator and others like them, where many little details need to be taken into account without being distracted from the main task. From a scientific point of view, this is explained by the fact that the female mind is focused on the final goal of its activity, that is, women are more practical, while the male mind pays more attention to the process itself - how to achieve a result or how to achieve success.

The myth of “female” logic is based on gender differences in the psychological understanding of the work of consciousness. The fact is that a woman’s chain of logical reasoning arises in the subconscious, but a ready-made conclusion comes to the surface. And when she is asked why this way and not otherwise, she can give the first random motive, and not the best one. From the outside, one gets the impression that a woman does not think logically, but intuitively. However, in fact, such a “feeling” is not based on a sixth sense, it’s just that ladies usually do not consider it necessary to go into unnecessary details of the thought process. The main thing is to get to the truth, regardless of the specific path. Psychologists explain that for women, the general, final property is important, and they pay less attention to specific internal mechanisms, be it the mechanism of a machine or the internal train of thought.

What is stronger - hormones or the brain?

Experts have not yet come to a consensus about the reasons for the existence of gender differences in memorizing information. So far, researchers are considering two possible ways - either the influence of hormones, or the structural features of the brain.

An interesting experiment in which women participated before and after childbirth was conducted by American scientists. During the period when the level of the female hormone estrogen in the participants’ bodies decreased, they were more successful in solving certain intellectual problems. These findings are consistent with previous findings showing that women's high levels of the male hormone testosterone help them perform spatial reasoning tasks (which are better developed in men).

By the way, for the stronger half of humanity, a large amount of male hormone, on the contrary, interferes with spatial perception. Those with elevated testosterone levels performed worse on tasks compared to participants with low testosterone levels. Thus, there is an obvious influence of hormonal levels on mental health - in both men and women.

And yet, gender differences in the structure of the brain cannot but play a certain role. Until recently, neuroscientists believed that these differences were limited to structures responsible for sex. However, ten years ago it became possible to study the brain of a living person using bloodless imaging methods - positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It turned out that some areas of the frontal cortex, responsible for cognitive functions, and also involved in the development of emotional reactions, are larger in women than in men. But the latter have better developed parts of the parietal cortex, the participating spaces, as well as the amygdala - a structure sensitive to information that awakens emotions and causes release into the blood.

Types of memory

When we say that we have remembered something, it means that we have successfully done three things: we have learned some information, we store it, and, if necessary, we can reproduce it again. If we fail to remember something, the cause may be a violation of any of these three processes. There are actually two types of memory: short-term and long-term. Some psychologists also highlight immediate memory - when information is stored in the brain for just a few seconds, for example, a landscape from the window of a moving train.

Short-term memory lasts for several minutes. If you need to remember a phone number and don’t have a pencil at hand, we use short-term memory. Some important objects are transferred from short-term to long-term memory, where they are stored for several hours or even a lifetime. One of the brain structures necessary for such transfer is the hippocampus, a paired system located in each of the temporal lobes of the brain. The medical literature describes a case where a patient had both hippocampi removed, after which he stopped remembering anything and only knew well those events that occurred before the operation.

In addition, according to experts, there is procedural and declarative memory. The first is knowledge of how to act. The second preserves a clear and accessible account of past individual experience.

As a result, scientists come to the following conclusions. Gender differences in the intellectual sphere exist, but they turn out to be very insignificant and often do not exceed 5-10%. However, these small features are enough to profoundly influence sexual behavior and even the entire lifestyle. As an example, we can cite the following fact. The difference between the strength of the right and left hands does not exceed 10%, and for other psychomotor indicators it is even less. However, look at what this leads to at a behavioral level: 90% of people prefer to use their right hand rather than both. Thus, differences that are insignificant at first glance can be multiplied by men and women due to the preference for one or another manner of behavior, when choosing an activity, etc.

For some reason, it is believed that a man will not tolerate an intelligent woman next to him. What should smart people do in this case? All my life I diligently pretend that they “confuse Gogol with Hegel” or...

It is extremely rare for the descendants of Adam and Eve to live together without clarifying the eternal question: who is smarter - men or women? Many spears were broken in these battles, but “the cart is still there.” For some reason, it is believed that a man will not tolerate an intelligent woman next to him. What should smart people do in this case? All my life I diligently pretend that they “confuse Gogol with Hegel” or... One day during a lunch break, I unwittingly witnessed a conversation between two men in the canteen of a business center:

Is it true that you and Svetka broke up?

And what? So many years together...

Just think, she lied to me all the time: she sat at home with the children, such an exemplary housewife, and then I accidentally found out that she earns extra money as a freelancer, writing cool computer programs for security systems.

So what?

Like what? And after that, what the hell am I, a programmer?!

So draw your own conclusions: is it really safe to preserve the family (and is it fair?) to pretend to be a fool.

Why are men afraid of smart people?

Reason one. The man is afraid that his pride will be hurt. Compared to a smart woman, he will look “not very good” with all the ensuing consequences: parents tease (“where did our fool find such a smart girl?”), friends chuckle (“you should consult with yours, maybe she’ll tell you something smart!”), children do not respect (“and mom knows better than you!”).

Reason two. High intelligence means being in demand. And being in demand is the key to success. The saying “if you are so smart, why are you so poor?” has sunk into oblivion. Today, an intelligent woman has every chance to make a good career and earn decent money. And how should her husband feel next to her, “not grabbing stars from the sky”? Something like A. Batalov’s hero Gosha from the film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears”: “her status is higher than my personal status!”

Reason three. The most banal: the man is just frankly stupid. And he understands perfectly well that he will never “take” a higher bar. And why? When can you find a girl whose abilities are lower, and who will “look in her mouth”, no matter what he tells her. Scientific approach

Who is smarter - men or women - science does not know for certain, as well as whether there is life on Mars or not. From time to time, scientists conduct research on this topic, the results of which contradict each other.

Thus, a study by John Philip Rushton showed that the IQ of the average man is almost four points higher than that of a woman.

On the other hand, the highest IQ, according to the Guinness Book of Records, was recorded in 10-year-old American Marilyn vos Savant - 228 units (and this is 28 units higher than the IQ of A. Einstein himself!).

On the third hand, it has long been proven: the hemispheres of the brain in women and men are developed differently. In men, the one that is responsible for logical and spatial thinking dominates, and in women, it is dominant in memory and imaginative thinking. Therefore, you can often hear that if a man is smarter, then a woman is smarter and wiser.

Moreover, since 1965, there has also been a theory of the evolution of sex by V. Geodakyan, which states: evolution experiments on men, and “invests” everything more proven and better in women... And who to believe? And most importantly, what does all this give us, simple smart women, “in practice”?

“Lovely, what a fool” or “horrible, what a fool”

So, if you still don’t dare to “put pressure on your loved one with your intellect,” do it wisely (don’t blame me for the pun). Simply put, don't overdo it. It’s not for nothing that jokes about blondes are so popular among the male audience: they don’t want to see stupid geese next to them, whose “hair is long and their minds are short.” And the difference between “lovely, what a fool” and “horrible, what a fool” is determined one or two times. Therefore, if you decide to cultivate the image of a “naive girl” in your relationship with a man, follow these simple rules:

You shouldn’t often recommend yourself out loud as a fool in front of a man - “oh, what an idiot I am, I forgot how it works again!” etc. (it will end with him believing this and starting not only to get irritated, but also to call you that himself, and this is not easy to endure); always be extremely honest in financial matters: even if you want to give him a surprise gift by spending on him part of the family budget, there is no need to “admit” that today on the street you were “conned” by a gypsy and your wallet is empty (the man will think: is he earning money through hard work for that woman? And even, soon learning that the cash went to him for a new shirt , “a residue will remain”); never give his friends a reason to doubt your mental abilities: you can “lose” to your husband in chess at home, but when you go out with your friends to the billiard club you must “show your class” (every man is an owner by nature and he must be sure that his “trophy” is the envy of others). “Be quiet, you’ll pass for smart...”

Now remember: who was the best student in your class at school? Girls. Who at the institute received an increased scholarship and had the least “tails”? That's right, beautiful girls again. This suggests a sad conclusion: if you don’t want to “bend under the changing world”, dreaming of finding a partner as smart as yourself, keep in mind that there are few smart people, and there aren’t enough of them for everyone. Many modern young people simply pretend to be smart, having picked up the best here and there, covering up their poor horizons with a few sonorous phrases. How to determine that your man is really not a fool? To begin with, he must be erudite and well-read (no one has yet canceled a good education). Then he is witty and enterprising, which will allow him to quickly find the right way out of a difficult situation. Further, he is not talkative and not an avid debater (life has long proven that in disputes what is born is not the truth, but an unnecessary insult to anyone in the spirit of “well, I know better!”). And finally, an accomplished person in his profession (no one would dare call a man who is “searching for himself” in various fields until he is 40 years old). Moreover, it is better that it (that is, the profession) is close and understandable to you: look for your destiny in your circle.

But, fortunately, it also happens that a woman who has “two top jobs” behind her lives happily ever after with a simple manager who is quite successful in her business. The main thing is that they feel good together. This means that the question “who is smarter - men or women” is better not to raise at all. This will be a truly smart solution.

Complete encyclopedia of our misconceptions Mazurkevich Sergei Aleksandrovich

Men and women. Who's smarter?

Men and women. Who's smarter?

Mom, why does dad have so little hair on his head?

Because he thinks a lot.

Why do you have so many of them?

Shut up and eat.

From family stories

Currently, the only more or less objective criterion of intelligence can be called “intelligence quotient” (IQ), determined on the basis of the results of several hundred simple tests. This “indicator of intelligence” can be treated differently, it is even rightly criticized somewhere, but nothing better has yet been invented. And what’s interesting is that according to this indicator of intelligence, women are in no way inferior to men. Statistics on this matter say the following: the average level of intelligence in the female population does not differ from the average level in the male population, while men with both a very high level of intelligence and a very low one are more common than the same women.

Some more facts (based on materials from the Trud newspaper). Already three-year-old boys and girls, as evidenced by research by English scientists, demonstrate significant differences in their mental abilities. Subsequently, at school, this gap widens even more. In the UK, for example, girls aged seven are already, as a rule, ahead of boys in reading. By age 1, they are confidently ahead of them (“on average”) in mathematics as well.

The fact that girls are ahead of boys mentally from early childhood is due, scientists believe, to “the effect of sex hormones on the formation of certain areas of the brain.” This explains why boys prefer to play computer games or watch football while girls read books. As a result, by the end of school, English girls, for example, manage to read three times more than boys.

Not long ago, the British Minister of Education said that the intellectual gap between girls and boys is so great that the education system for boys will obviously have to be reconsidered.

And a number of other facts. In men, the ability to remember reaches its peak at the age of twenty, after which it begins to gradually (and sometimes not so smoothly) go down. For women, this peak occurs much later, only at the age of forty. It turns out that a woman learns new knowledge much easier even at a later age. And since a specialist in the modern world has to do this all his life due to the constant updating of technology, it turns out that a woman finds herself in an advantageous position. This increases her chances in the labor market.

It is curious that until very recently there was an area of ​​knowledge where women were hopelessly inferior to men - mathematics. It is known: for every two mathematically highly gifted men there is only one woman. But this intellectual fortress is already under siege and may soon fall. In the same Great Britain, a list of dissertations in mathematics is published annually. For several years in a row, half of the list has been occupied by female names.

Why do men often think that women, to put it mildly, are narrow-minded? It's all about the difference in thinking. For women it is more substantive and specific. For men, it is abstract, figurative. Therefore, often the ornate hints of men simply do not reach women, which gives the representatives of the “stronger sex” reason to suspect women of a lack of intelligence.

And I would like to end this article with one more anecdote, indicating that men are not always as smart as we (men) would like.

Two friends are talking:

- Who do you think is smarter: men or women?

- Of course, women! Have you ever seen a woman who would get married just because her chosen one has beautiful legs?

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Men without women, women without men A man without a woman is a mirror that no one looks into. A woman without a man is a reflection that lacks a mirror.? Kazimierz Matan, Polish aphorist *Women without male society fade, and men without female society become stupid.?