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From: cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics
Subject: Re: Income Disparities Based On Sex
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Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 15:24:42 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  6 15:24:42 1985
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Summary: 

>article says that Professor Marian Diamond and her husband, UCLA 
>psychiatrist Arnold Scheibel, while teaching a course at UC Irvine
>Extension, indicated that "studies of brain tissue continue to bear
>out the notion that men and women do think fundamentally differently".
>In more detail, "Male and female minds really are different.  Men
>typically have more highly developed cells in the right half of the
>brain controlling visual and spatial function, while such dominance
>isn't marked in women.  'This isn't to say that either is better,'

If you read _Science_ or _Nature_ regularly, Mr. Clayton, you would know
already that more recent studies of brain function do not bear out the
by-now popular way of associating the left brain with intuitive functions
and the right brain with analytical functions.  (I wonder where the asymptotic
expansions go?).  Furthermore, you would know that brain cells have been
found to be far more flexible in their function and capacity for growth
beyond early childhood.  This means that people really do think, and can
train themselves to actually be hardwired for whatever function they find
that they have to do the most of.  So your little triumph in finding a 
little newspaper article that finds "scientific proof that most women 
are unfit to do complex analytical and spatial tasks (i.e tasks that pay
lots of money)"  is just a bunch of hogwash, and very closely akin to 
the "science" of eugenics that Hitler used to justify his little experiments.

Far be it from me to call you a NAZI, Mr. Cramer.

                               Cheryl Stewart
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