Paul Broca's Analysis

A woman’s brain on average weighed 181 grams less than a man’s brain according to scientist Paul Broca’s data. Broca and his team were trying to scientifically prove that woman were inferior to men. With a women’s brain weighing less than a man’s, Broca believed this finding meant that women were less intelligent than men. Broca’s experiment was flawed, he lacked constant variable which separates the good experiments from the bad. Broca’s experiment was conducted in 1872, which was a time when women were supposed to be the care takers of the household and rarely had prestigious jobs or an education like men did. The effect of Broca’s experiment on society’s perception of women was slim to none. Broca’s experiment consisted of two hundred ninety-two male specimens, and one hundred forty female. He found that the male brains on average weighed one thousand three hundred twenty-five grams, and the female brain was an average of one thousand one hundred fourteen grams. It is noted that Broca knew that height could play a role in the difference in height, the males were about half a foot taller than the …show more content…
Women not seen as equal, their life goal was to be passive and to take care of their families. With this way of thinking, a woman did not need as much intelligence as a man since she was not doing complex tasks. In the present, the thought of women having to stay home and amount to nothing for their whole lives is ludicrous. Women are taking on incredibly difficult jobs, and getting college degrees, just as men do. Women make up forty-seven percent of the work force, and that number is only expected to increase as time goes on. Women are now doing traditionally male professions, such as becoming doctors, becoming a police officer, and fighting in the military. Broca and his team had only seen male dominance because they suppressed women and would not allow them to