Omar Masalkhi: Women…Smarter Than Men

Women…Smarter Than Men ! Virginia Woolf, Orlando said ,"A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.” Women are better than men at multitasking but not as good as men when it comes to reading a map. Undeniably ,men and women have differences in behavior ;they have different brain structures, but the question that has been raised since the dawn of history is :who’s smarter? men or women? like the advocates of feminism,women should be treated on equal basis with men due to their great achievements in diverse fields . It is believed that the two hemispheres of the brain probably work differently. The left side helps us think analytically, while the right side helps us look at things as a whole, involving value judgments and emotion. Men are more likely to be "left-brain dominant" while women are thought to use both hemispheres more equally and that is the main reason for the multitasking function that women has. A woman can do up to four tasks at the same time while men are able to do one take at once and that’s what gives women the advantage of being smarter. Moreover if we check scientific history we find that the great discovery of nuclear cell was made by the amazing chemist and physicist Marie Skłodowska-Curi and this discovery is one of the most important scientific discoveries ever made thanks to a woman. Also science has proven that women are smarter after making a brain scan study of women and men and comparing between both, it was found that blood flows in 112 out of 128 regions of the women’s brain indicating that women’s brains are more active than men’s. In addition women are also found to behave less recklessly than men, and in essence live longer because they are more careful about their behavior. They also have a lower instance of having a disease such as ADD or anti-social personality disorders. Women’s brains showed a higher level of activity in the prefrontal cortex which is often referred to as the CEO of the brain because of its many functions. It takes care of organization, planning, impulse control and learning from mistakes. Men’s brains showed more activity in the regions that deal with visualization, form recognition, and tracking objects through space. This does not mean necessarily that one gender is brighter than the other; it simply means that the brains operate differently between the two genders. In conclusion I like to say that women are as smart as men and more but since through history women were treated as slaves and used as a sex machines for men they couldn’t evolve and didn’t have the chance to participate in the previous scientific discoveries but nowadays we can see the change in levels and notice the Superiority of women in different and extreme fields and everyone who still thinks that men are smarter than women must reconsider his thoughts and redo his math.