Related links
Links to key websites that focus on issues and concerns about sex and gender.
General articles and links
The Secrets of the Sexes: Are men and women's brains wired differently?
Website that accompanied the BBC One series on sex differences.
They just can't help it
There really are big differences between the male and female brain, says Simon Baron-Cohen. And they could help explain conditions such as autism (Guardian Online, 17 April 2003).
How male or female is your brain?
Tests developed by Simon Baron-Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge (Guardian Online).
The smell report: sex differences
Sex differences in sensing smell (Social Issues Research Centre website)
Will boys always be boys?
(BBC News Online, 28 February 2004)
The truth about science and sex
(Guardian Online, 27 January 2005)
Animal Super-dads
Male involvement in parental care (NOVA website).
Sex differences in the brain
Topical briefing article on sex differences in the brain, published on the British Society for Neuroendocrinology's website.
News
How doctors choose a child's gender (BBC News Online, 31 January 2004)
Gender-bending fish show sex is all in the mind (Telegraph Online, 27 December 1997)
Genders 'sense pain differently' (BBC News Online, 6 November 2003)
Premature boys have smaller brain (BBC News Online, 8 August 2004)
The dawn of gender-specific drugs (BBC News Online, 6 August 2003)
Women feel pain more than men (BBC News Online, 4 July 2005)
Mobile usage shows gender split (BBC News Online, 2 June 2004)
It's a girl – but she knows that already (Telegraph Online, 24 August 2001)
Rite of passage? (The Hindu Online, 29 September 2002)
Journal articles (Access to some of these articles requires subscription)
Sex differences in the brain (Scientific American 13 May 2002)
Medical biology: sex differences reading disability (Journal of the American Medical Association, 28 April 2004)
Report shows strong sex differences in teenage health behaviour (Student BMJ, July 2004)
Sex differences in autoimmune disease: focus on multiple sclerosis (Science, 26 February 1999)
Single gene removes sex differences in mice brains (New Scientist, 31 August 2004)