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I think he is referring to the research work of Simon Baron-Cohen?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/belinda-parmar/sugar-and-spic...

The general conclusion being that men tend to focus on ideas and woman gravitate towards people.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/may/03/biolog...

And that still confounds the issue of biological gender and what society constructs to be gender. I doubt that reliable research into this can currently be made since obviously any person that has been brought up in today’s society has been brought up with this societies notion of gender roles. And boy, have we been wrong about what we considered what women could or could not do in the past.

Can you point me to research into how XX is different from social gender? I think I'm not understanding this point. How can society construct the idea of a gender, if not from biology? How else was the social concept of gender created ?

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