What women/men want

[Ankesh]

Thanks TW for a stimulating conversation.

Some time back - some professor proclaimed that men are inherently better than women when it comes to math. He based his research on the average SAT scores of boys and girls.

And he does seem right if you take the *proof* under consideration: women have rarely come up with a math breakthrough.

But you know that this is completely nurture based right? Nature hasn't made men better at math than women. But our societal norms have made the math gap wide. Because hard sciences is usually considered a male field.

That is changing according to professor Janet Hyde.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/07/are...s-at-maths.php

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In USA: 30% of all people coming for treatment of sex addiction are females.
In UK - 20% of all people coming for treatment of sex addiction are females.
In India I'm sure this number is less than 10% or so.

What - women in India and UK are hard wired differently than women in USA?

Not really. Its just that not as many women in India and UK come forward.

They have similar impulses. But societal norms make them suppress these impulses.

Men and women are not too different. And at the same time men and women are not too similar either.