Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars

As published in "Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences".

Language: In girls the language areas of the brain develop before the areas used for spatial relations and geometry. In boys, it's the opposite.

Wiring of the brains: In girls, emotion is processed in the same area of the brain that processes language. But in boys, the regions of the brain involved in talking are separate from those involved in feeling. So it's easier for most girls to talk about their emotions than boys.

Hearing: Girls simply hear better. The typical teenage girl has a sense of hearing seven times more acute than a teenage boy.

Learning: Stress enhances learning in boys, but impairs learning in girls