General Discussion

I suspect gender differences are mostly motivational, i.e. we have a reward system for all the
different social and cognitive needs, which makes us receive different kinds of pleasure and pain, thereby pay
attention and learn. You cannot learn what does not attract your attention. Women tend to find abstract
systems, conflicts and mechanisms intrinsically boring. Most women in computer science do not write programs
because they enjoy solving puzzles, but because they want to help people, get approval etc. There are almost
no women in math, because it does not help people or yield social attention.

Men tend to find elaborate social relations boring. If there is no pleasure in observing and
empathizing with people, one will not have good social cognition.