Energy and Gender Brains

Someone asked me the other day if it really took less energy to run the male brain. That is what studies have shown because the male brain tends to be more lateralized, meaning one part can be working while another part is idling, so to speak. The female brain, on the other hand, is less lateralized. The resting female brain is as active as the activated male brain. Some researchers think this gives the female brain a slight learning advantage as it is never at rest, per se. (Gurian, Michael, PhD, and Patricia Henley, with Terry Trueman. Boys and Girls Learn Differently! CA: Jossey-Bass, 2001, p 29) As I often say, gender differences are neither good nor bad. You give up something to get something and vice versa.