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The two sexes tend to choose much different jobs; the British engineering industry had a fifteen-year campaign to recruit women, with limited, if any, success; engineer Carolina Bartram; her parents nor her teachers scarcely approved of her wanting to become an engineer; nine out of ten nurses are
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differences; at school, eight times as many boys than girls are expelled; four times as many girls than boys study foreign languages at A-level; former headteacher Alan Davison believed that boys learned differently; teacher Sue Moss; English teacher Jenny Fincken.
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Amanda Smith, and her husband, tried to overcome biological sex differences with her children, but it never took hold; boys chose mechanical toys, girls chose painting; girls, from an early age, were more conscientious when learning; neurobiologist
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test; two out of three dentists were men, but nearly all dental nurses are women; 99% of all electricians are men; the UK Giant Vegetable Championships in
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2–0; stock trader Peter Matthews, who raced cars; some men became neurologically addicted to seeking danger,
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than women, which biochemically inhibited risk-taking, by regulating the amounts of dopamine and serotonin.
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The series was produced by Jim Meyer and Anne Moir, and originated by Bill Moir. The titles were made by
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A book on the series was published in 1999 by Anne Moir,
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Index

Channel 4
sex differences in cognition
neurochemistry
reward systems
Triffic Films
ISBN
0007468911
Roger Gorski
developmental biology
congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Essex
psychological test
Ernie Govier
University of East London
Sally Shaywitz
Iowa State University
Gina Grimshaw
testosterone
Women in engineering
Helen Fisher (anthropologist)
dichotic listening
Spalding, Lincolnshire
Westminster Warriors
Solent Stars
Fulham F.C.
Grimsby Town F.C.
sensation seeking
Marvin Zuckerman
neurotransmitters
dopamine

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