{In Two Minds [continued (4)]}[12th August 1988]

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My guess is that the perceived (and, I believe, quite real) * gender difference may lie not so much in the abilities of the two sexes as in their approach or attitudes – nor do I think that these differences are solely due to traditional or environmental influences on the individual; although I think that the differences may have a great deal to do with physiological differences of bodily structure (not necessarily including all or even part of the brain), eg relative strength and drives, and with biological roles, eg child-bearing.

This might tend to give females a ‘left’ emphasis in practice, in Circle terms, and males a ‘right’ emphasis, in some but not all respects; but the effect would be probably rather slight, and it is perhaps a pity that [2] could not have had more of the cross-gender and gender-pairing activity in the work of the Net workers who appear in the second half. In the next book there should be, logically, more at the next level ‘down’ or ‘away’, ie of mixture, and I had anticipated that these would be mixed; in [2] it was difficult, by the logic of the Circles, to go much below the diagonals level (and if Rachel had been male, the story would have been quite different, one way or another!).

*[typical]

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