MALE AND FEMALE

Korero (AEWS), Volume 2, Issue 15, 31 July 1944, Page 8

MALE AND FEMALE

The psychological differences between men and women was touched on by a 8.8. C. speaker recently. “ Females,” he said, “ are never satisfied until they get the personal angle clear. They are peculiar in their interest in the personal—even the things they are so interested in are things pertaining to a person. In my laboratory, which was a family club, we had the opportunity of studying the behaviour of hundreds of males and females of every age, and they are quite curiously separated by their interests in persons or their interests in things. This peculiarity is in evidence even in the nursery, among the children two and a half to five years. If I went down to the nursery and took out a box of bricks and started to amuse myself with them, a little crowd would gather round and watch. When I went away the little girls would follow me; the little boys would pounce on the bricks and start using them. Over and over again this would happen —with all ages, from infancy to old age. The female followed the person who intrigued them ; the males followed the intriguing things that person was using. So little boys get into one kind of mischief and little girls get into quite another kind of mischief—and that seems to last throughout life.”