Celebrated polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who passed away last month, never lacked targets for his writerly ire: Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal — even Mother Teresa was not immune. But in a polarizing 2007 Vanity Fair essay, Hitchens outdid himself, taking aim at the entire female species. Women aren’t as funny as men, he declared. Case closed.
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Men and women have large differences in personality, according to a new study published Jan. 4 in the online journal PLoS ONE. 
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Living World | sexual orientation | Sex, a biological function of reproduction, should be simple.
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A major study of recent international data on school mathematics performance casts doubt on some common assumptions about gender and math achievement -- in particular, the idea that girls and women have less ability due to a difference in biology.
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feelings shmeelings | Why women apologize more than men: gender differences in thresholds for perceiving offensive behavior.Introduction: Despite wide acceptance of the stereotype th...
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Monogamy is failing men.
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New findings could lead to a non-invasive test allowing expecting mothers to learn the sex of their baby as early as the first trimester.
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Leiden researchers and their colleagues in Toronto investigated the effects of the hormone estrogen on spontaneous attention. They were hoping in this way to explain differences between the sexes. Women turned out to only be different from men when they had a high level of estrogen during their menstrual cycle. Via Paulo Furtado
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A Japanese study of tiny spines that occur between brain cells revealed virgin male rats to have far more of them than more sexually experienced counterparts.
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The study discovers how the differences in the way men and women think of themselves and react to incentives may be creating gender differences that lead to leadership gaps, rather than the gap being caused solely by discrimination in the selection process. Specifically men's tendency to exhibit natural overconfidence in their past performances may attribute to the lack of greater female representation in upper management and executive positions.
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