You're confusing equality with sameness.
Also, the idea that male and female brains are radically different is false. There might be a few minor differences, but even that's controversial. And you're utterly ignoring the possibility that a straight male/ female distinction covers everything; it doesn't. There're all kinds of intersex permutations, and comparatively few people are likely to be "wholly" male or female (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean - there's nothing male or female about a chromosome, for example).
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 10:10, 1 reply)

Sorry, but that's just not true. They are [in general, natch]different. There's little controversy in the scientific community, but there is controversy over how to interpret the results, and obviously when a tabloid gets hold of them.
The wiki 'sex and intelligence' and 'biology of gender' pages are a good start for collections of research, the articles are bit average.

Edit: That was not meant to be anywhere near as patronising as it sounded, I'm starting to sound like my Dad ffs.
(NiplyTheElder tried to slip clunge into a conversation on, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 12:51, closed)

And the difference between science and the interpretation of results is what, exactly?
Inasmuch, that is, as the latter presupposes the former...

What neurological differences there are are small; and, within a machine as complex as the brain, exactly what they mean is something about which we're sketchy at best...

The confusion of sameness and equality is still there, however you answer the neurological question, of course; Neanderthal brains were much more different from h. sapiens brains than female human brains are from male, yet that tells us nothing about what their comparative moral or social status would've been had both species of human survived.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 14:29, closed)

stop being a science twat
men and womens brains are near identical lumps of kit

its a software issue

we all know that

you try de-installing the handbag hormone, or distrupting the electrical signals to the shoe synapt
(omnishambles ™ has been fucking things up big style since, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 19:58, closed)

If
they are nearly identical, why does a female brain (of nearly all species) weigh one third less than a male brain?
(dchurch bah, Fri 1 Jan 2010, 21:58, closed)

because in general women weigh a third less than men?
except in Newcastle obv
(omnishambles ™ has been fucking things up big style since, Sat 2 Jan 2010, 15:26, closed)