The difference between men and women is even greater than you may think.
By examining any one of the body’s approximately 30 trillion cels, a scientist can tell if it belongs to a man or a woman.
A man’s brain is slightly heavier than a woman’s, and the average red-blooded American male has 10% more red blood cells than his feminine counterpart. A woman’s heart beats eight to ten times more per minute than that of her current heart-throb; if both live average life spans, she’ll tick off some 300,000,000 more heartbeats than he will!
“Straight from the shoulder” is a male attitude. A man’s arms do hang that way; in women, there’s a definite bend at the elbow so that the lower arm extends outward at an angle. Similarly, a man’s thighs and legs are in a straight line while a woman, by comparison, seems knock-kneed; her legs bend inward at the knee.
Relative to a man, a woman has a longer head, but a shorter neck; shorter limbs, but a longer trunk; a seated woman is relatively taller than a seated man.
Though a man’s vocal cords are longer and thicker than a woman’s she apparently gets in not only the last word, but the first one, too. Studying children in the same social brackets, psychologists found that little girls use longer sentences than little boys! Speech therapists say that stuttering is two to ten times as common in males as in females.
Each sex tends to hear its own voice better! A woman’s hearing is keener than a man’s in the higher grequency ranges, while men’s ears pick up low notes more readily. The female tear ducts proved almost twice as active as those of the men! Color-blindness affects one man in every 25, but only one woman in 250.
Which sex is really smarter? In general intelligence, men and women seem about equal, according to those who have studied results of modern IQ tests. However, more men than women seem to be found at either intellectual extreme. More males fall into the “feeble-minded” category.
Women, according to Dr. Justus J Schifferes in the Family Medical Encyclopedia, are more easily hypnotized than men. They are somewhat more apt to suffer from migraine headaches; a typical migraine victim, according to Dr. Schifferes, is a little woman with fine hair, a smooth complexion – and perfectionist tendencies! Women are sick about 20% more often than men, yet at any age, the female death rate is at least 20% lower than the male’s!
Is it ever a man’s world? Yes – few people realize that 105 boys are born for every 100 girls.