Friday, March 04, 2005

291: Closing the Gender Gap -- Beckman 2005 (228): 2 -- sciencenow

Closing the Gender Gap -- Beckman 2005 (228): 2 -- sciencenow. Experiments on the way rhesus monkeys' respond to spatial problems show gender differences which diminish with age. When trained, the young monkeys were equal. This has implications for teaching human children, and for Harvard's president.