Understanding the Differences Between

Male and Female

WHY men and women cannot understand their respective differences without great effort? The answer is very simply: there are hundreds of differences between male and female.

 General Differences

1.       An average man is taller and heavier than an average woman.

2.       Men have more bodily hair than women do, especially on the chest and extremities

3.       Women are more sensitive to sound than men

4.        Men are over 30% stronger than women, especially in the upper body. Although many feminists cannot face this fact, females simply do not have the strength or endurance necessary to be, for example, effective combat soldiers.

5.       The body of men have 40% muscles while those of women have

6.       On average, girls begin puberty changing approximately two years earlier than boys.

7.       Men have larger hearts and lungs, and their higher levels of testosterone cause them to produce greater amounts of red blood cells

8.       A difference in intake and delivery of oxygen translates into some aspects of performance: when a man is jogging at about 50% of his capacity, a woman will need to work at over 70% of her capacity to keep up with him.

9.        Female fertility decreases after age 35, ending with menopause, but men are capable of making children even when very old.

10.   Men’s skin has more collagen and sebum, which makes it thicker and oilier than women’s skin

11.    Women generally have a greater body fat percentage than men.

12.   Men and women have different levels of certain hormones; for example, men have a higher concentration of androgens such as testosterone, while women have a higher concentration of estrogens.

13.   The blood of men is 1 and ½ gallons while that of women is 4/5 of a gallon.

14.   Male chromosomes are XY and female is XX chromosomes.

15.   Woman has greater constitutional vitality, perhaps because of her unique chromosome makeup.

16.   Woman’s metabolism is normally lower than man’s.

17.   Man and woman differ in skeletal structure, woman having a shorter head, broader face, less protruding chin, shorter legs, and longer trunk.

18.   An average male brain has approximately 4% more cells and 100 grams more brain tissue than an average female brain. This is not connected with intelligence! Research points to no overall difference in intelligence between males and females. However, both sexes have similar brain weight to body weight ratios.

19.   An average man performs better on tests of spatial and mathematical ability, while women perform better on tests of verbal ability and memory.

20.   Men’s IQ has greater variance, which means that there are more men than women in the very high and very low IQ groups.

21.   In men, the second digit is often shorter than the fourth digit, while in females the second tends to be longer than the fourth

22.   Men have better distance vision and depth perception, and usually better vision in lighted environments. Women have better night vision, see better at the red end of the light spectrum, and have better visual memory.

23.   Men are more logical than women who are more detailed oriented.

24.   Men are more analytical and women more detail-oriented.

25.   Men are hypersensitive than women and women less sensitive to emotions.

26.   Men’s greatest need is to be admired; women’s greatest need is romance.

27.   A man’s skin is about 20% thicker than a woman’s and is usually firmer because it is richer in collagen and elastin levels.

28.   Men are more physically aggressive than most average women.

29.   Women are less likely to successfully commit suicide, but more likely to attempt it.

30.   More men will commit suicide because of love life than most women.

31.   Men have more positive attitudes about sex then women do.

32.   Women express their emotions more readily and experience a greater intensity of emotion.

33.   Males are much better in visualizing a three-dimensional object than women are.

34.   Men are more prone to taking risks than most women.

35.   Men have thicker skull than their women counterpart.

36.   Woman has larger kidneys, liver, stomach, and appendix than man, but smaller lungs.

37.   Normally, female outlives male by three or four years in the U.S.

38.   Woman has several unique and important functions: menstruation, pregnancy, lactation.

39.   Woman’s hormones are of a different type and more numerous than man’s.

40.   Woman’s thyroid is larger and more active. It enlarges during pregnancy and menstruation; makes woman more prone to goiter; provides resistance to cold; is associated with her smooth-skinned, relatively hairless body and thick layer of subcutaneous fat.

41.   Woman’s blood contains more water and 20 percent fewer red cells. Since the red cells supply oxygen to the body cells, woman tires more easily and is more prone to faint.

42.   On the average, man possesses 50 percent more brute strength than woman (40 percent of a man’s body weight is muscle; 23 percent of a woman’s).

43.   Her constitutional vitality is, therefore, limited to “life span.”

44.   Woman’s heart beats more rapidly (average 80 beats per minute vs. 72 for man).

45.   Woman’s blood pressure (10 points lower than man’s) varies from minute to minute, but she has less tendency toward high blood pressure—at least until after menopause.

46.   Woman’s vital capacity or breathing power is significantly lower than man’s.

47.   Woman withstands high temperatures better than man because her metabolism slows down less

48.   Men have higher energy level than women who have more durability.

49.   Women tend to be more personal than men.

50.   Women have a deeper interest in people and feelings; building relationships, while men tend to be more preoccupied with practicalities that can be understood through logical deduction.

51.   Men tend to be more challenge-and-conquer oriented; competing for dominance hence, their strong interest in sports such as football and boxing.

52.   Men tend to be less desirous and knowledgeable in building intimate relationships, both with God and with others.

53.   Women tend to find their identity in close relationships, while men gain their identity through vocations.

54.   Men tend to express their hostility through physical violence, while women tend to be more verbally expressive.

55.   A woman’s sexual drive tends to be related to her menstrual cycle, while a man’s drive is fairly constant. The hormone testosterone is a major factor in stimulating a man’s sexual desire.

56.   A woman is stimulated more by touch and romantic words. She is far more attracted by a man’s personality, while a man is stimulated by sight.

57.   A man is usually less discriminating about those to whom he is physically attracted.

58.   While a man needs little or no preparations for sex, a woman often needs hours of emotional and mental preparation.

59.   It has been proven that women are happier with their lives than men are.

60.   In general, men are men and women are women, men cannot be women and women cannot be men.

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