Myths about the female brain

In her book, “Delusions of Gender” writer Cordelia Fine questions the theory that women are “naturally and cerebrally” made for housework and child rearing. One of the biggest and antifeminist myths that today still lay on the foundations of our culture.

Here you have some of the most interesting Fine’s arguments.

1.Myth: Women are good at “multi-tasking”.

This is perhaps one of the most popular myths about the functioning and powers of the female brain and it is that women are better at doing different things at once, compared with men. Therefore, one of the topics on women is that they can talk on the phone, make lasagna and watch their child at a time. For many, a clear evidence that women are made to deal with housework, raising children, and, in turn, be the perfect wife. According to Fine, however, scientific studies which see this idea, from his perspective, were not valid for small sample size.

2. Myth: Women like to empathize.

People have always spoken about emotional intelligence of women and their ability to empathize with others. However, recent studies show that men have the same power to take the place of another person, just like women. False!

3. Myth: women are bad at math.

It is one of the most persistent legends, which allegedly can explain why there are so few women working in the field of exact sciences. However, Fine found an interesting investigation, which was evidence that boys are not necessarily better at calculating, adding and subtracting, but they classified always their math skills better than women. Interesting, isn’t it?