Have you a male or a female brain?

Differences between male and female brains are hard to define, and may be due to either nature or nurture, or both.

MEN and women are different. But some people believe men are from ‘Mars’ and women are from ‘Venus’, and that this explains why men never ask for directions and women are confused by maps, or why men excel at science, maths and technology and women in caring professions, such as nursing and teaching.

Economist Larry Summers thought so. In January, 2005, the then president of Harvard University provocatively said that men succeeded in science and engineering because they had “intrinsic aptitude”.