Science news articles about 'weaker sex'

... less chance of withstanding disease than women. In short, men are the weaker sex." This new evidence, Prof. Glezerman notes, confirms the old wives' tale that boy fetuses are more ...

... their age disadvantage. However, it is unclear whether this flexibility in developmental rates is sex-specific. Bogdanova and Nager experimentally manipulated the social environment of herring gull ...