Why men are more intelligent than women?

Question

The greatest breakthroughs in history have been made by men, to name some personalities: Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas A. Edison, Stephen Hawking, Albert Stein, James Watson etc and women participation is mainly in charity events. Are we more intelligent than women? in my opinion...Yes, we are. what do you think?

Answer 1

I beg you also to look at the time periods for many of the men you named. Social rules dictated women were not worth educating, or were less worthy of education than men. As this trend has changed, so too will history and its innovators. You forget some well known females who have lent themselves to the change of history, such as Susan B. Anthony and Marie Curie, just to mention a couple. Also, to pigeonhole women into "only participating in charity events" is stereotypical and narrowminded. Intelligence is not dictated by genitalia.



Also, might I add...if you are asking a question, it would need to be phrased "Why are men more intelligent than women", or" Are men more intelligent than women." I'm sure you know that though, being the highly intelligent male that you are.

Answer 2

That's a convenient assumption -- and as anecdotal evidence always proves to be, it can be refuted by actually examining the entire picture. Keep in mind that women didn't gain the right to vote until 1919 in the US, an example of a society which was holding onto some archaic and unfounded ideals of gender roles. Women were not encouraged to pursue livelihoods that would take them away from the kitchen and the cradle until in recent history. I'm frightened to see that some girls are still raised with the mindset that their most important goal should be "snagging" a man. That's another story ...

In any case, women were quite often not taken seriously and not allowed into education institutions. On a side note, a recent survey reported the number of women undergrads to be larger than their counterparts ...

While this conversation can obviously go on for some time, here some names you might be interested in :

Marie Curie (think uranium), Hellen Zenna Smith, Elizabeth Blackwell, Karen Horney, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Mead, Maya Angelou, Flora Tristan ... if you need more, feel free to ask.

"Ignorance renders the masses turbulent and ferocious" - Francois Guizot

Answer 3

I think both men and women have the ability to be very intelligent, but that societies of the past did not allow women to be intelligent thats why you think there were no intelligent women in the past, but now we allow women to get education and many women perform better in schools than men. By the way I am a man. However, I think it doesn't matter how much education either has, what matters more is wisdom, often those with too much knowledge are arrogant, evil, selfish, etc.

Answer 4

I don't think men are more intelligent than women. Men had rights long before women and were seen as superior to women back in the day. Women have evolved and made great progress, but we are still paid less than men for doing the same job. And no, it's not because men are more intelligent. I think it is because the stereotype still exists that men have to be the "bread winner" of the family. You can't group an entire gender into one and say that they are smarter than the other gender. I know some stupid men and some stupid women. I think we are about equal on stupidity.

Answer 5

Women were largely disallowed from participation in the sciences with the odd exception. Since that changed, women have been responsible for countless breakthroughs, including M-theory, medicine, mathematics, computer science, materials science, and architectural design. Please do your research before you ask such an question... it can be seen as contrived and intentionally incendiary. Consider women equal to men and in some ways superior. The complementarity between the sexes is an absolute essential to the species' survival. You do this inherent union a diservice by undermining the relationship through such trite pieces of inquiry.

Answer 6

All right, some of the people you have mention were from long ago when women where not aloud to vote! This is still a mans world no matter what people think, what am trying to say is that its hard for women with great ideas to get them notice because men can cut it down its not easy believe me I know. For example just 13 years ago many companies would not let women use there computers I met a teacher that said when she was in the military women were not aloud to use computers. Many banks still will not give a woman a chance to open a large company because we are a bad risk! BAD RISK! For God Sacks we live longer then men. It is a known fact that MEN only use 50% of there Brain! It does not mean men are smarter then women it just means you have more CLOUT!

Answer 7

No, men are not more intelligent, women are. It's been scientifically proven. All the men you listed are from a time before women had rights, if women had the same rights as men back then, we would probably be better off, because I'm sure there were plenty of brilliant women, they just weren't allowed to speak their mind.

Answer 8

First and foremost there are many different forms of intelligence, and up until the 19th century women were excluded from science and couldn't get the resources needed to experiment and research ( money, books, tools), not to mention there research wasn't given any credit. Your question only praises those in science and women have discovered and brought many things to the forefront. But since you are discussing science I will name some women worthy of recognition in the science arena. Marie curie famous in chemistry and physics. Rosalind Franklin helped discover the double helix. Maria Goeppert-Mayer She researched and wrote a thesis on the "shell-model". She discovered that atomic nuclei have shells that are similar to the electron shells of atoms.

Answer 9

I am going to assume you are very young and not an idiot....woman were not allowed into the arts of male dominated society, for centuries. In the United States for example their worth beyond chattel is marked as about 100 years. In case you're young and not a total idiot let me tell you there are societies that still act this way. In spite of the handicap of being less that a mans cattle woman have still made contributions to society, and science. In that regard you can do your own home work.

Answer 10

Your gonna "draw some fire" from this one. Generalized statements like that will have the "exceptions" lining up at your door.



Good luck.



Personal opinion... generally speaking, men think mechanically while women are more in tune with emotions. Women are incredible communicators and guys work on cars.



Who the h#ll was Albert Stein??? Didn't he start Stein-Mart?



NOTE TO "COFFEE": Thanks for mentioning our extra "little brain" I forgot all about it!

Answer 11

I think you are an arrogant jack-***! Women are as intelligent, or more intelligent, than men! After all, we use both sides of our brains and you poor imbeciles can only use one side of yours. The biggest reason for women always lagging behind is because we not only have to do the 9-5 jobs that you men do, we, also, have to take care of your children, clean the house, do your laundry, and cook for you! All this,while you do your 8 hours, and just can't handle anything else, because you are exhausted. Poor things, how pitiful you all are! Why don't you try to do all the things that we do and see if you can keep up. Ha! What a joke!

Answer 12

They probably befell mutually and at the same time in heritage. regrettably that's possible that adult males back then constrained females from such issues as studying and different issues, style of like what percentage adult males attempt this on the on the spot. I have and skim the e book "prolonged relations of the Cave submit to" and inspite of the actuality that that's a artwork of fiction, the significant personality who's a human female residing mutually with her followed Neanderthal relations, she reflects impressive intelligence and robust will.

Answer 13

men THINK they're more intelligent than women. but actually women and men are better at some things than the other sex. this is because studies show that hormones have an effect on the way we think, act, react, etc.

Answer 14

Why are you all more intelligent? Well....two heads are better than one, aren't they? And most of you seem to spend a great deal of time thinking with the "other" one....

I now have proof - you don't seem to be able to make up your mind(s) whether you are male or female, based on the information stated in one of your prior questions.

Answer 15

Why does a man feel the need to have the "community" affirm his assumption that men are of higher intelligence? If this man (you!) was more intelligent than this woman (me), you wouldn't need to post this question!

Answer 16

Intellect is not gender biased. Opportunity is---or has been...



By and large I think men are more rational and more logical and (forgive the rash generalization) are more competitive. Those traits may have led to the accomplished list you provide.

Answer 17

Lucky for you, a MAN has figured this out for lesser men and women to know: Men are more intelligent than Women because Men carry the XYZ chromosome, and women the GJW, please note that manly DNA is in alphabetical order, and Women's DNA are in no particular order at all... amazing stuff, that sciencey stuff.

Answer 18

When you educate a man, you educate a person. When you educate a woman, you educate a Village.

Answer 19

it is the fact



as if sky in finity ........ there is a god ....... sooo on



thats like we r more intelligent ........ some might b disagree but they cant proove it .............



overall fact of the matter is that



MEN ARE VERY-VERY-------- MUCH INTELLIGENT THAN women



sam ;)

Answer 20

What a sexist question. Here is my a answer. A large and ever expanding list of famous women who have made outstanding contributions to science, medicine, maths and other important matters/subjects.



I have also porvided the link which will take you to the page from which i got these names and also states their acheivements and biographies. Enjoy.





• Magdalena Abakanowicz

• Diane Abbott

• Bella Abzug

• Abigail Adams

• Louisa Adams

• Jane Addams

• Adelaide

• Aelfgifu

• Aelfled

• Aelfthryth

• Aethelflaed

• Maria Agnesi

• Agnodice

• Tenley Albright

• Francesca Alexander

• Florence Ellinwood Allen

• Isabel Allende

• Amalasuntha

• Andal

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

• Mary Anderson

• Regina M. Anderson

• Anna

• Anna Comnena

• Anne of Cleves

• Anne of Hanover

• Andromache

• Andromeda

• Susan B. Anthony

• Eleanor of Aquitaine

• Elizabeth Arden

• Artemisia (5th century B.C.E.)

• Nancy Astor

• Augusta (title)

• Anne Ayres

Delia Bacon

• Joan Baez

• Pearl Bailey

• Oksana Baiul

• Josephine Baker

• Tallulah Bankhead

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett

• Katharine Bates

• Sylvia Woodbridge Beach

• Ethel Lynn Beers (Ethelinda Eliot Beers)

• Berengaria

• St. Bernadette (Bernadette Soubirous)

• Annie Besant

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Bonnie Blair

• Harriot Stanton Blatch

• Boadicea

• Nicole Bobek

• Barbara Bodichon

• Erma Bombeck

• Bona Dea

• Marita Bonner

• Lizzie Borden

• Boudicca

• Belle Boyd

• Anne Bradstreet

• Sophonisba Preston Breckenridge

• Fredrika Bremer

• Elizabeth Britton

• Anne Brontë

• Charlotte Brontë

• Emily Brontë

• Hallie Quinn Brown

• Molly Brown

• Olympia Brown

• Brunhilde

• Martha Cannary Burke

• Ada Augusta Byron, Lady Lovelace

Calamity Jane

• Hattie Caraway

• Rachel Carson

• Rosalynn Carter

• Cartimandua

• Willa Cather

• Carrie Chapman Catt

• Empress Carlota, Mexico

• Catherine the Great of Russia

• Catherine of Siena

• Catherine of Valois

• Coco Chanel

• Lydia Maria Child

• Christina of Sweden

• Cixi or Tz'u-hsi

• Clare of Assisi

• Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette)

• Judy Collins

• Anna Comnena

• Elena Cornaro-Priscopia

• Marie Curie

• Pauline Cushman

• Emily Davies

• Angela Davis

• Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose")

• Olympe de Gouges

• Dehgewanus

• Henriette Delille

• Abby Morton Diaz

• Emily Dickinson

• Catriona Le May Doan

• Margaret Douglas

• Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin Dudevant

• Isadora Duncan

• Marguerite Duras

• Mary Dyer

• Eadgyth of England

• Alice Morse Earle

• Mary Baker Eddy

• Marian Wright Edelman

• Edith of England

• Edith of Polesworth

• Edith of Wilton

• Sarah Emma Edmonds

• Katherine Philips Edson

• Eleanor of Aquitaine

• Elen Luyddog

• Elfreda

• Elfrida

• Elfthryth

• Elgiva

• Elizabeth I of England

• Elizabeth Woodville

• Elizabeth of York

• Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother

• Fanny Elssler

• Ellen Russell Emerson

• Emma, Queen of Franks

• Enheduanna

• Ethelfleda

• Beatriz Galindo

• Sophie Germain

• Althea Gibson

• Alessandra Giliani

• Emma Goldman

• Winifred Goldring

• Jane Goodall

• Doris Kearns Goodwin

• Ekaterina Gordeeva

• Katharine Graham

• Martha Graham

• Rose O'Neal Greenhow

• Lady Jane Grey

• Valentina Grizodubova

• Louise Guiney

• Dorothy Hamill

• Nancy Hart

• Hatshepsut, Pharaoh of Egypt

• Carol Heiss

• Sally Hemings

• Sonja Henie

• Katharine Hepburn

• Caroline Herschel

• Carla Hills

• Hannah Höch

• Ariel Williams Holloway

• Isabella Beecher Hooker

• Lena Horne

• Julia Ward Howe

• Hrostvitha

• Hsiao-ch'in or Cixi or Tz'u-hsi

• Dolores Huerta

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Hypatia

• Isabella I of Castile and Aragon (Isabella of Spain)

• Isabella II of Spain

• Isabella of France

• Mary Jemison

• Carol Heiss Jenkins

• Lydia Jenkins

• Helen Kendrick Johnson

• Lady Bird Johnson

• Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)

• Pauline Kael

• Helen Keller

• Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

• Nancy Kerrigan

• Sofia Kovalevskaya

• Michelle Kwan

• Lady Li

• Selma Lagerlöf

• La Latina: Beatriz Galindo

• Nella Larsen

• Catriona Le May Doan

• Mary Custis Lee

• Muna Lee

• Anna Leonowens

• Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox

• Lotte Lenya (Weill)

• Mary Edmonia Lewis

• Lady Li

• Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawaii

• Tara Lipinski

• Louise of Savoy

• Ada Lovelace

• Amy Lowell

• Christa Luding-Rothenburger

• Sybil Ludington

• Ludmilla

• Wangari Maathai

• Margaret of Scotland (Saint Margaret)

• Margaret Tudor

• Marguerite of Navarre (Marguerite of Angoulême)

• Marie Antoinette

• Helen Marot

• Marozia

• Mary I of England

• Mary of Guise

• Mary Queen of Scots - Mary Stuart

• Saint Matilda of Saxony

• Empress Matilda, Lady of the English

• Empress Maud

• Christa McAuliffe

• Mary McDowell

• Aimee Semple McPherson

• Jacqueline Means

• Golda Meir

• Melania the Elder

• Melania the Younger

• Meryt-Neith

• Michitsuna no haha

• Alice Duer Miller

• Mirabai

• Maria Mitchell

• Toni Morrison

• Maria Montessori

• Lucretia Mott

• Thea Musgrave

• Nefertiti

• Agnes Nestor

• Ruth Nichols

• Anaïs Nin

• Emmy Noether

• Sandra Day O'Connor

• Mary Kenney O'Sullivan

• Olga of Kiev

• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

• Emmeline Pankhurst

• Rosa Parks

• Catherine Parr

• Alice Paul

• Anna Pavlova

• Claudia Pechstein

• Katherine Pettit

• Pocahontas

• Emily Post

• Leontyne Price

• Elena Cornaro Priscopia

• Eve Queler

• Harriet Quimby

• Ayn Rand

• Jeannette Rankin

• Laura Ratcliffe

• Charlotte Ray

• Janet Reno

• Sally Ride

• Leni Riefenstahl

• Irina Rodnina

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Betsy Ross

• Mary White Rowlandson

• Sacagawea

• Salome

• George Sand

• Margaret Sanger

• Sappho of Lesbos

• Louise of Savoy

• Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

• Charlotte Angas Scott

• Barbara Ann Scott

• Semiramis

• Caroline Severance

• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

• Sarah Siddons

• Sigrid the Haughty

• Nina Simone

• May Sinclair

• Hannah Greenebaum Solomon

• Mary Somerville

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Edith Stein

• Gertrude Stein

• Lillian M. N. Stevens

• Sarah Hackett Stevenson

• Lucy Stone

• Alicia Boole Stott

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Empress Suiko

• Maud O'Farrell Swartz

• (Florence) Madge Syers

Ida Tarbell

• Saint Teresa of Avila

• Saint Térèse of Lisieux

• Margaret Thatcher

• Theodora - 6th century

• Theodora - 10th century

• Theophano - 943?-after 969

• Theophano - 956-991

• Debi Thomas

• M. Carey Thomas

• Iva Toguri d'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose")

• Jayne Torvill

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

• Sophie Tucker

• Margaret Tudor

• Tz'u-hsi or Cixi

Elizabeth Van Lew

• Loreta Janeta Velazquez

• Veleda

• Queen Victoria

• Alice Walker

• Mary Edwards Walker

• Faye Wattleton

• Lois Weber

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett

• Eudora Welty

• Lucy Wheelock

• Sarah Helen Power Whitman

• Katarina Witt

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Fanny Bullock Workman

Kristi Yamaguchi

• Maud Younger

• Zenobia





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It's not that men achieve more than women, it's just that they get more credit and praise for their work.