13-14) Girls" corpus callosum form more in advance compared to boys allowing the corpus callosum to grow faster, and larger, than the males, in the crossing over between the two hemispheres of the brain. The males corpus callosum tends to grow quickly on one side and slower on the other side that causes the two sides not to link up as soundly in the middle causing boys to be more intelligent on one side of the brain than the other (1996, p. 13). These differences in the brain have come about due to the differences in hormones, as well as, the way females and males develop in the womb of their mother.
After birth these differences between the sexes continue to show themselves. As infants, girls tend to be able to pay attention longer than boys, while boys tend to pay attention to something for a short amount of time but they are more actively engaged in the activity then girls are (1996, p. 16). Boys and girls also communicate differently.
As always has been the stereo type girls have always seemed to want to communicate just for the sake of talking, and boys" just want to play and rough house. Diane McGuiness explains that "Women are communicators and men are takers of action- (Elium&Elium, 1994, p. 15). Dr June Reinisch observed that a "female's disposition to communicate first and act later shows up early in life." She goes on further to say that females learn to talk earlier as well as have a vaster knowledge of vocabulary and will rather talk out a problem than take action (1994, p.15). Their senses are more acute than boys, therefore they seem to understand and solve problems more thoroughly by means of talking than any other medium (1994, pp.19-20). Boys are the opposite. Boys use communication more as a means to an end. They use it to "solve problems, give advice and show superiority" (1994, p.22). .
These ideas can be plainly seen when an experiment was conducted on a first grade classroom.