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...R.UHAMAH SCHEINFELD FRANK...
...Amram Scheinfeld spent five years studying and assembling what modern scientists have discovered about sex. Some of their findings upset established notions: e.g., that women are more likely to be hysterical than men; during the bombing of London there were 70% more shock cases among civilian men than women. Another myth: that primitive women bear children as easily as animals do; actually they take as long to recuperate as civilized mothers...
...Stronger Sex. Man's inability to understand women, says Scheinfeld, is largely biological. The more scientists study the question, the more fundamental differences they find between men & women. Girl babies are generally born five to nine days sooner than boys; they teethe and talk earlier; their bones harden sooner; they have fewer red corpuscles and a faster pulse; they are more emotional (more active thyroid glands); they mature more rapidly. A girl sleeps more than a boy, needs less food, has a lower metabolism rate, is warmer in winter (because of better insulation) and cooler in summer...
...Scheinfeld observes that no overall comparison of male & female intelligence can be made. Women average higher in languages, esthetic skills (such as matching colors) and social accomplishments. But men show up better in tests for reasoning, ingenuity, comprehension, abstract thinking, mathematics, science. Scheinfeld thinks that male domination is not entirely responsible for the fact that no woman has ever produced a great invention, composed a great piece of music, or ranked with the great artists and writers. Says he: Women must always be handicapped in competition with men by the physical facts of life (childbearing, menstruation, etc.) and the necessity...
...Scheinfeld suggests that women can be most successful at home-or anywhere else-by making the most of their special gifts of "sympathy, kindness and human warmth." Scheinfeld is inclined to agree with the French deputy who, during a debate on the sexes, jumped to his feet and cried enthusiastically: "Vive la différence...