ABSTRACT
A wealth of anthropological evidence suggests that psychological differences between men and women are culturally rather than biologically defined. 1
Hormonal differences between the sexes may precipitate differences in aggression or nurturance behaviour and these provide the building blocks for evolutionary development … [but] as we move toward modern industrial societies, the impact of human values begins to overshadow differences in innate predispositions or the ability to perform social functions. However while all societies prescribe different attitudes and activities to men and women, they try to rationalise these prescriptions in terms of the physiological differences between the sexes or their different roles in reproduction. While such factors may have served as the starting point for the development of a division, the actual ascriptions are almost entirely determined by culture. 2
