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Are Boys And Girls Really That Different? Twenty Years Ago, Doctors And Researchers Didn’t Think So. Back Then, Most Experts Believed That Differences In How Girls And Boys Behave Are Mainly Due To Differences In How They Were Treated By Their Parents, Teachers, And Friends. It's Hard To Cling To That Belief Today. An Avalanche Of Research Over The Past Twenty Years Has Shown That Sex Differences Are More Significant And Profound Than Anybody Guessed. Sex Differences Are Real, Biologically Programmed, And Important To How Children Are Raised, Disciplined, And Educated. In Why Gender Matters, Psychologist And Family Physician Dr. Leonard Sax Leads Parents Through The Mystifying World Of Gender Differences By Explaining The Biologically Different Ways In Which Children Think, Feel, And Act. He Addresses A Host Of Issues, Including Discipline, Learning, Risk Taking, Aggression, Sex, And Drugs, And Shows How Boys And Girls React In Predictable Ways To Different Situations. For Example, Girls Are Born With More Sensitive Hearing Than Boys, And Those Differences Increase As Kids Grow Up. So When A Grown Man Speaks To A Girl In What He Thinks Is A Normal Voice, She May Hear It As Yelling.

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Author

Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.

Publisher

Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299002531

Category

education

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Sociology, Social Science

Rating

4.6 / 5 (602 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14