Blogging Assignment Week 6

I found a website with new findings based upon sound scientific research about gender differences. It appears that men and women behave differently because they're biologically programmed to do so. Here are some of the more interesting ones:

1. This article suggests that women are sensitive to the pitch of a man's voice in terms of memory and also for choosing someone for a relationship. The pitch can evidently help a woman determine if the male is of good quality, and whether he has undesirable behavioral traits. From the two experiments conducted, scientists found that women were more responsive to the lower male voice. Do you think that this is because of genetic traits, or because society determined that men should have low voices?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110912143359.htm

2. In a slightly more morbid article, statistics suggest that women are less likely to commit suicide through a method that disfigures their face or head. In a 10 year period, women were found much less likely to shoot themselves anywhere above the neck in comparison to men. However, the author highlights that it is not because of vanity. Beyond this, the article does little to explain further in terms of gender differences. Why do you think that this difference exists? Do outside gender influences play a role in this?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110830091107.htm

3. This third article isn't much of a behavioral difference but still interesting in terms of gender differences. In botox procedures, men need more botox in every area to achieve the same result as women. At the current period, women are much more likely to perform botox on themselves, but the number of men is increasing. Men need more botox because of the general greater muscle mass of men in the body compared to women. Additionally, larger men need more botox than slender men. Why do more women get botox compared to men? Is it purely vanity?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071228215539.htm