Girls think they are worse than boys

Yes, if you have common sense, it is more than likely that the title that heads this article has surprised you. To us too and that is why we have decided that it is a very important issue to take into account, because the emotional health of girls is at stake and it is society that may have some blame for this. A society that sometimes continues with macho, retrograde thoughts and that although it seems to evolve one step, later you discover that it has taken three steps backwards.

It is unfair, cruel and it does not make sense for a girl to think that as she gets older she will not have as many opportunities as her boy friends and that in addition, they will be less brilliant in all respects. But how outrageous is this and why is it happening? The worst thing is that there is a study that affirms it.

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A sentence that says something like: 'A person in my office is very intelligent and is able to solve problems quickly and very well' can make a 5-year-old girl who hears this sentence think that she can be just as intelligent as anyone another person, regardless of gender, because 'person' is used.

However, boys and girls aged 6 and 7 they are up to 30% less likely to think that a woman can be this bright and they will even think that this 'person' is automatically a man. This has been discovered by a study published in Science.

In another experiment, researchers found that older girls were less interested in their male counterparts and thought that the most difficult games were intended for highly intelligent boys (although they were also interested in those difficult games).

Researchers say these early ideas about gender and intelligence could steer young girls away from realizing their potential or to get careers related to high intelligence such as neuroscience or engineering just because they think they are men's things and that they would not be able to do so well.

Another surprising finding is that both boys and girls recognized that girls get better grades in school, indicating that boys are not necessarily associated with success in school, nor are they associated with brilliance. Scientists hope to determine where children's perceptions of intelligence and gender originate. But, it is very important to emphasize perseverance, rather than intelligence, in both boys and girls.

The numbers don't matter

There are many studies that talk about statistics where they say that girls are smarter than boys but men are smarter than women. But the reality is that regardless of evolution or the male or female brain, in both cases brilliant results can be achieved as long as perseverance is behind success and learning.

Girls mature faster than boys, some studies show how the male advantage in intelligence does not appear until after puberty, when the boys and girls finish maturing and growing. Until then, it appears that girls are more mature and intelligent than boys at any given chronological age. So, for example, compared to 10-year-old boys and girls, it's like shopping 10-year-olds with 12-year-old girls since girls have higher intellectual capacity than boys who are younger and less mature.

So if boys and girls are compared at the same chronological age, girls are on average smarter than boys. In other words, maturity drowns out the overall smart difference between genders. But it seems that when boys become men, things can change and the tables turn. But is that entirely true?

The relativity of studies

Although there are studies that show how men get better cognitive marks than women, it cannot be applied to the general population since the sample will always be limited to some specific members ... It cannot be generalized to the entire population and therefore, Can not generalize. It is an absolute daring to do so.

Because with that same perspective we can say that women are more emotionally intelligent than men and perhaps because of that, they are also more successful in life ... Why? Because a high IQ does not ensure success in life, but a high Emotional Intelligence can open more steps for you. And if we combine a high IQ with a good Emotional Intelligence, then ... Success is assured. Is an intelligent woman then a supreme being? No not at all. Neither man nor woman… children must be taught equal rights and equal opportunities through perseverance and respect for the other.

Gender Equality

What matters in our society is that boys and girls grow up knowing that they can get what they want as long as they try hard enough to get it. There are no better or worse for being of one gender or another.

The machismo that continues latent in our society is important to fight against it to eradicate it once and for all. Because even if science says that a male or female brain may be more intelligent than the other, what ultimately matters is perseverance and the desire to achieve the goals and dreams of each one. Raise your children thinking that they are capable and respecting their people so that they also learn to respect others.

Perseverance and respect are the keys so that children do not feel less capable of others just because they were born of a certain gender and not another. That feeling that unfortunately many girls have lived and live today, is the beginning of fear and abuse ... equal opportunities begins in the education of children!