HAVE MEN MORE BRAINS THAN WOMEN?

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 223, 20 September 1893, Page 2

HAVE MEN MORE BRAINS THAN WOMEN?

In the " Young Womon " for April there is an interview with Mrs Fenwick Millor, who discourses concerning marriage and public work, the condition of modern society, the progress of woman movemenb, and woman's suffrage. In the course of tho conversation, Mrs ffenwick Miller, describing the Women's Congress, held three years ago, tells tho Bbory of how an old-time and honoured fallaoy waa exploded :—

A very clever address was read on the woighb of women's brains. We nro always told in anatomical books that the weight of a woman's brain is four ounces leea than a man's, and the inference drawn is that a woman is four ounces less capable of thinking than a man. This lady, in preparing her paper for the last Congress, endeavoured to hunt that statement to iis lair. Sho went to one profesuiu1 after another to discover who had originated it, without success. All the loading anatomists told her that it was so ; but when asked how they know it, nnt one had any reference to give her. Finally, flhe prepared twenty brains, ton men's and ten women's, and offered a largo reward to any anatomist who, after testing those braiiiß anyhow lie liked, could toll her which were the women's and which the men's. The brains wore so much alike that it was perfoctly impossible to tell to which sex they had belonged. No doubt the entire brain of an average woman is lightor than that of a man, because she has lees rauecular surface to more.