MENTALITY OF THE SEXES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16986, 9 March 1923, Page 10

MENTALITY OF THE SEXES.

Fundamental differences in the mental equipment- of the sexes are noted by a Frenchwoman, Mile Evard, who has just published a study of male and female minds. In presenting her observations she expresses the hope that more attention may bo given to this branch of inquiry, in order that boys and girls may each receive education on the lines best suited to them. Men, she finds, are more sensitive than women to form, but women have a better appreciation than men of weight and colour. The masculine, mind works more rapidly t-hau the feminine in the. association of ideas, but it has much less originality; it is stronger in power gifted in qualities of analysis and assimilation. Woman’s knowledge, while generally les« deep than that of man. covers a wide field, and her powers of observation are move strongly developed than man’s. Intuition counts far more in woman, too, than in man. AlWi, says Mile Evaf«s. judge by reason. hut women by instinct. These great differences in the mentality of the sexes are put forward as proving the error of giving the same kind of education to l.ovs and girls.