(UPI) 14 March 2008:

Researchers conducted a survey asking both men and women what it was that they looked for to make them comfortable as they prepared for sleep.The majority of men said that they liked a warm body beside them. The majority of women said they looked for a blanket and some decent pillows.

There is a suspicion that the two sexes were actually answering different questions. The women were answering the one actually asked: what is it that makes your sleep more comfortable. The men, not so much. Perhaps they were responding to what they like to do before going to sleep. Or hope to do before going to sleep.

(HERALD SUN) 4 October 2007:

You might remember that a couple of years ago Harvard president Larry Summers got into a lot of trouble for pondering whether there really was a difference between the sexes in terms of intelligence. Not on average, but that there were more male geniuses and more male idiots, while women clustered closer to the average. This pondering got him fired.

Now it appears that he was actually correct: There are actually twice as many men in the smartest 2% of the population as there are women, just as there are in the most stupid part of the population.

(SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER) 14 September 2007:

The Small Business Administration has released a report looking at the differences between men and women when it coms to starting a business. The general summation is that male entrepreneurs are from Mars, female from Venus.

Actually, the results simply showed something that we knew already: there’s a difference in appetite for risk between the sexes. Women entrepreneurs were more interested in low risk and low return businesses while men were more likely to take much greater risks in pursuit of those possible untold riches.

Something which an evolutionary psychologist would have pointed to: very similar to the hunter/gatherer split that started the whole species going in the first place.

(HOME NEWS) 22 July 2007:

Statistics support the statement that there are many fewer women in prison than men. The vast majority of crime is committed by men so this isn’t very surprising. We also shouldn’t be all that surprised that men and women act differently when inside either.

William Hauk, the warden at New Jersey’s only female prison reveals how different they are. Women, for example, use the prison library to try and reduce their sentences: men are more interested in making a splash by filing frivolous lawsuits.

The games and sports played also differ, men do solitary things like use the gym, while women play team games: difficult to think of in a male prison without it all being taken much too seriously.

(THE YORKSHIRE POST) 4 July 2007:

The world’s first Professor of Men’s Health has stated that men approach the health care system differently that women do.

Men tend to ignore preventative measures and only visit the doctor when there is something obviously wrong that needs attention. Women, on the other hand, are much more liable to be regular visitors for regular checkups and minor matters.

Want an example? The fact is that more women than men get skin cancer: but more men die of it, as it is usually found later in them.

Whether this is innate between the two sexes or is perhaps part of the rise in testing services for women in recent decades (mammograms, smears etc) is as yet unknown.

(UNION TRIBUNE) 18 June 2007:

A New York woman has just accepted a $29,000 settlement from the New York City authorities. It’s a civil settlement arising out of her arrest and being held for 12 hours two years ago for appearing topless in public.

The award stems from a 1992 State Supreme Court ruling that insists that if men have the right to appear topless in public then so do women.

Opinion is still divided as to whether this is a welcome insistence of the equality of men and women under the law or a slight blindness to the differences between the sexes.

(REUTERS) 9 October 2006:

Market research firm Harris International has found that up to 52% of Americans either have or would re-gift. That’s the practice of taking the unwanted gifts from last Christmas and passing them on to someone else this holiday season. The basis of so many farcical plots (where the aunt gets from her nephew the vase she gave to her niece three years ago) it does seem to be on the rise.

Reasons given were laziness (9%), simply not interested enough to go and purchase a new gift (can we assume these were all men?) and even, in 4% of the cases, dislike of the recipient (no, we don’t know the breakdown by the sexes unfortunately).