A Clarification of a Misunderstanding

between men and women have been scientifically proven. These differences have been a reason for women’s failure to find an equal place in every department of life. Where philosophers had erroneously doubted the religious concept of women—scientific findings have now re-established this concept’s veracity. For instance, the following research, though specifically related to the medical field, can draw our attention to understanding that gender differences are a part of nature and not a creation of society. They are real, and one cannot just wish them away. Catherine Woolley, the William Deering Chairperson in Biological Sciences, Professor of neurobiology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and a Women’s Health Research Institute member at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has this to say: “The importance of studying gender differences in the brain is about making biology and medicine relevant to everyone, both men and women. No one studies things such as who is better at reading a map or why more men than women choose to enter certain professions.” Male and female brains operate differently at a molecular level; the research team reports in a new study of brain function involved in learning and memory, responses to stress, etc. For 20 years, Woolley avoided studying gender differences