Hi Buz.
You've asserted that the "lobes" of menand women are"different," and that this suits each gender for more specific roles in society. Specifically, you have shown a preference for traditional Western roles for women as domestic workers who manage the home and raise the children while the husband works and brings in money. This fits with the Biblical description of women, in which God creates them to be a "helpmeet" to men.
However, you have not
supported any of these assertions - you've simply stated that you are drawing on "6000 years of history."
This is an Appeal to Tradition fallacy. Just because a thing has "always been done"or "always been thought" does not mean it is true or beneficial.
Please show
actual evidence, in the form of scientific studies (which you must be aware of, since you claimed that yours was the "scientific view"), as opposed to personal anecdote and appeals to tradition. As you are the one making these claims, the burden of evidence rests squarely upon your shoulders, and your justifications to date have been sorely lacking.
I would simply like to point out that while we have many stereotypes regarding women in our culture, most of these are holdovers from earlier in our history when women's roles were significantly different from today. These preconceptions, being based not on evidence but upontraditional stereotypes, are usually
wrong, much like their racial counterparts.
According to the
Beureu of Labor Statistics, more women are today enrolled in college than men:
quote:
Men............................ 5,492
Women.......................... 6,179
According to the same source, of those who are no longer enrolled in school, more women have attained a High School diploma than their male counterparts (1,403 women have "less than a High School diploma," vs 1,606 men).
These numbers are in thousands, and are for the total non-institutionalized civilian workforce.
It would certainly seem that women are
at least as capable of intellectual pursuits as men, and the data shows a significant enough difference that it would even appear that they are
better than men. This despite several disadvantages, chief among them being the outdated stereotypes held by older generations.
I have not seen any actual data presented in this thread that suggests women are "better suited" to domestic roles and "less suited" to traditionally male roles. The evidence I have seen suggests that women are easily just as capable as men, and that gender is essentially irrelevant.
Will you present evidence to support your case, Buz, or will you concede?