This is believed to be related to high levels of testosterone or oestrogen they are exposed to in the womb.
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We tried doing the gender neutral toy thing. It really doesn't work. So much evidence it doesn't work.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/747999269072867328 …
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So, what you're saying is that at age 3 a child is unlikely to go against conditioning. I'm playing devil's advocate.
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But I don't know what that means. She did go against it. We tried to get her interested in train sets. She resisted it. Just wasn't.
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So, from birth, you gave your daughter 'boy's toys' and she resisted?
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Yes, she was always more interested in her toys with faces than in things that moved but didn't.
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She's just one example & she's not that gender-typical otherwise but there really is mountains of evidence for this.
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Girls speak earlier than boys, Girl newborns look at faces for longer. No-one's forcing women into psychology rather than engineering.
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Can anything be said about girls who don't talk until later?
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I don't know. But girls brains connect more across the lobes which also indicates communication skills. Boys more within lobes
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It would be much more surprising if we were the only primates not to have gender differences or if our brains were the only thing the same.
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