[Mark Allinson]

I suspect that social conditioning works on some innate gender-related qualities to produce the kind of differences you mention.

Oh yes, Clive, I agree - social forces can certainly intensify or weaken innate biological tendencies.

But without those innate tendencies to work on, the social forces would produce equal outcomes, I believe.

And individuals ARE individuals - each with our own mix of tendencies.

For instance, I am a male, but D.I.Y - NO WAY!!!

I failed Woodwork three years in a row at high school.

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Edited back to reply to Clive's added point re class:

where are the working class voices?

Well, here's one, for a start.

I was the very first person in the history of our family to attend university.

My family (on both sides) are absolute working class, coal-miners and laborers and clothes washers all.