There have been many different researchers over the years have been able to recognize significant differences between the sexes. “The distinctions of them include the structure of the brain, child development, and perceptions about the world” (Gervais, 2012). Parents will often take this knowledge and use it to raise their children, and continue to follow the structure of gender roles. Although, there are consequences to this, since children's first teachers’ in life are their parents. Children raised this way will be brought up as a prophecy to what their parents believe. “For example, boys are expected to be much more aggressive and stronger than a girl child, while the girls are thought to be more emotional and more social than the boys.
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“Girls are innately more relational.... boys are hardwired to be competitive” (Brizendine, 2006). However, neuroscientist Lise Eliot, has spent her life doing years of research and published the book, Pink Brain, Blue Brain. She had found very little sufficient evidence of “innate” qualities or “hardwiring” in male and female brains. “What I found, after an exhaustive search, was surprisingly little solid evidence of sex differences in children’s brains,” (Eliot, 2007). Eliot stated that she found there were larger differences found between adult males and females, but even so, these differences were still significantly small. She, and several additional brain scientists support the statement that, instead of claiming males come from Mars and women from Venus, it’s more factual to agree that boys are from North Dakota and women are from South Dakota. If the differences between the male and female brains are so notably small, why are so many quick to believe the opposite? Eliot makes the point that putting a greater emphasis on the difference is much more compelling than the mundane reality. “Sex differences in the brain are sexy,” (Eliot, …show more content…
This supports the stereotypes and the expectations that advises the way they are both taught. The phrase “Use it or lose it” is common when it talking about the brain. It basically says that if a certain part of the brain is not used, they dwindle, similar to a muscle that is not being used. It’s similar to the idea that if a professor has lower expectations for the girls in the class, he may not challenge them in the same way he does with the male students. Another example of this is that if a parent doesn’t expect their son to be an empath, then they may send him signals that it’s okay to be egocentric. Eliot believes that the emphasis on brain differences by Brizendine and others has led to “a brand-new wave of stereotyping…The more we parents hear about hard-wiring and biological programming, the less we bother tempering our pink or blue fantasies, and start attributing every skill or defect to innate sex differences. Your son’s a late talker? Don’t worry, he’s a boy. You daughter is struggling with math? It's okay, she’s very artistic” (Eliot,
“Girls are innately more relational.... boys are hardwired to be competitive” (Brizendine, 2006). However, neuroscientist Lise Eliot, has spent her life doing years of research and published the book, Pink Brain, Blue Brain. She had found very little sufficient evidence of “innate” qualities or “hardwiring” in male and female brains. “What I found, after an exhaustive search, was surprisingly little solid evidence of sex differences in children’s brains,” (Eliot, 2007). Eliot stated that she found there were larger differences found between adult males and females, but even so, these differences were still significantly small. She, and several additional brain scientists support the statement that, instead of claiming males come from Mars and women from Venus, it’s more factual to agree that boys are from North Dakota and women are from South Dakota. If the differences between the male and female brains are so notably small, why are so many quick to believe the opposite? Eliot makes the point that putting a greater emphasis on the difference is much more compelling than the mundane reality. “Sex differences in the brain are sexy,” (Eliot, …show more content…
This supports the stereotypes and the expectations that advises the way they are both taught. The phrase “Use it or lose it” is common when it talking about the brain. It basically says that if a certain part of the brain is not used, they dwindle, similar to a muscle that is not being used. It’s similar to the idea that if a professor has lower expectations for the girls in the class, he may not challenge them in the same way he does with the male students. Another example of this is that if a parent doesn’t expect their son to be an empath, then they may send him signals that it’s okay to be egocentric. Eliot believes that the emphasis on brain differences by Brizendine and others has led to “a brand-new wave of stereotyping…The more we parents hear about hard-wiring and biological programming, the less we bother tempering our pink or blue fantasies, and start attributing every skill or defect to innate sex differences. Your son’s a late talker? Don’t worry, he’s a boy. You daughter is struggling with math? It's okay, she’s very artistic” (Eliot,