Why men hate advice and women can't park

A new book claims to have found scientific explanations for why women can’t reverse park, and men are unable to multi-task. According to 'Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps', differences in the wiring of male and female brains affect the way we perceive the world and each other. The authors Allan and Barbara Pease say while more than 70 per cent of men can park in reverse, only a quarter of women can accomplish this feat. Although women are actually better at learning tasks, the authors claim that in real-life situations the part of the brain devoted to spatial awareness becomes overwhelmed. While women can talk on the phone, do the ironing, and watch television at the same time, men find it difficult to concentrate on anything more taxing than watching the football, the book claims. This is because the area connecting the right part of the brain to the left is thicker in women, allowing more ideas to flow. Women find to harder to immediately distinguish their left hand from their right, the authors claim, because they use both sides of their brain at the same time. Men have a dominant side of the brain, making it easier for them to tell one hand from the other instantly. The male reluctance to ask for directions when they are clearly lost is said to go back to prehistoric times. When the male role was to keep the family safe, showing weakness would been seen as failure. And finally, women really do have a sixth sense when it comes to appraising other women’s intentions due to the fact that the corpus callosum in women is thicker than in men. Among other issues tackled in the book are what men and women need to do to get on in business and why men offer solutions but hate advice.