Brainstorm

THAT GELATINOUS organ inside our skulls has been subjected to considerable scrutiny in recent decades, but according to Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain, there’s still little good evidence the male brain is different from the female brain.

I know! After all these centuries of being told otherwise – as far back as the 19th century, at least, when we were told the male brain was larger than the female brain, which explained the intellectual, biological and social inferiority of women.

Few brain scientists in their right mind would now say brain size is an indicator of intelligence or social competence; the average female brain is smaller than the male brain because it needs to fit inside a female