Why Believe in Male/Female Differences

Copyright © 2015 Prof. Larry Cyril Jensen.

Cover Photo by: McKenna Melville

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

iUniverse

1663 Liberty Drive

Bloomington, IN 47403

www.iuniverse.com

1-800-Authors (1-800-288-4677)

Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

ISBN: 978-1-4917-8171-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4917-8172-2 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 11/19/2015

CONTENTS

Preface

I.   Believing in Diversity

a.   Believing in Diversity Leads to Appreciation

b.   Why Believe in Gender Differences?

c   Scholarly Books Describing Gender Differences

II.   What Women Want, Like and Value

a.   Researching What Women Want

b.   What Women Do Not Want

c.   Traits Valued by Women

d.   Traits Liked By Women Existing in Different Cultures

III.   Men and Women and the World.

a.   Public Man, Private Women

b.   Do Women Live in a Different World?

c.   How Women and Men View the World

d.   Women like Family

IV.   Can You Wish Gender Away?

a.   Are Gender Differences Hardwired in the Brain?

b.   Brain Sexual Differentiation

c.   What is a Minimalist?

d.   An Answer to Minimalist Concerns

e.   Debating the Magnitude of Gender Differences

f.   At the End of the No Difference Road

V.   Making the Most of a Good Situation

a.   Why Femininity Will Not Go Away

b.   Living with Husband and Wife Differences

c.   Valuing the Differences

d.   No Need to Fear Gender Differences

e.   Enjoying the Differences

Reflections from the Authors

End Notes

Contributors:

Uitilafi Faumuina II

Elissa Greenman

Cody Rogers

Daria Watts

Rainey Whitworth

Yvette Yanes

PREFACE

In our university seminar we investigated how men and women differed one from another. We soon found an enormous amount of research documenting all kinds of differences. It was then that we realized there was a more important question. Why do some academicians want to deny or minimize these important differences