腦&科學&社會 Science& Technology& Social
焦傳金 教授
Professor Chiao
我認為在社會部分，因為性別歧視、偏見等，常常讓大腦變成讓其中一個性別貶低、嘲笑或差別待遇另外一個性別的原因。例如在開車時，因為以前觀念，至今常常都是男性開車，而因為在出事時常常肇事者皆為女性，因此馬路三寶中的其中兩寶就是女性；但是在意外險中男性保費較高，因為大家認為男性開車比較衝動、容易違規，所以提高保費。由以上兩個皆為駕車的例子，可以知道大家將女性歸為馬路肇事三寶，卻又提高男性保費，十分矛盾。
再來則是方向感，一樣道理，大家認為男性方向感比較好，可是卻沒有想過在菜市場及百貨公司，女性的方向感似乎更勝一籌?那生活在山林中的族群、或是沙漠中的民族，他們卻不分男女，方向感都比生活在其他地方的人好。所以方向感是可以訓練的，不能因為性別關係就直接否定那個人的能力。
最後則是以前的護校，因為大家認為女生比較溫柔，適合擔任護理人員，卻忽略其實男性的細心程度可以不亞於女性，而且男性天生上力量的優勢可以在照顧患者尚邦到很多女性無法獨力完成的任務。綜合以上例子，我們可以知道男女大腦有點不同，但大腦本身有神經可塑性，很多能力都是可以被訓練得，只是以前可能沒有機會，性別差異有時來自各體本身，不要怪到大腦!
The excuses of one gender to tease, look down another gender are sometimes based on the difference of brains. For instance, in old conception, there were usually males drive cars, while the causers of car accidents were sometimes females, that is, people conclude women and old women in the top three who would cause the accident. However, the insurance premiums of men are higher than women in the reason that the company consider men are careless and impulsive to cause car accidents. It is such a contradiction.
Furthermore, people think the sense of identifying the direction of men are better than women. Whereas mothers’, sisters’ and girlfriends’ senses in the department stores or supermarkets are almost always greater than boys. Hence, the sense of direction can be trained and it is not propriate to judge their abilities by the gender.
In the end, the old nurse school didn’t welcome boys as their students because they consider girls were more careful than boys. Actually, there are a lot of boys have great patient and their talented of strength can also help girls do something they cannot achieve. Accordingly, some abilities can be trained if there has a chance. And the difference of gender might sometimes caused by individuals, not the brain always!!!
