Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide - Hector A. Garcia 2019

Language Differences between Females and Males
Is Conservatism an Extreme form of The Male Brain?

Adding to findings that women tend to be better at nonverbal communication, a significant body of research shows that women tend to have better language skills. Girls develop vocabularies faster than boys,³² and tend to master bilingualism more than boys.³³ Research has also found that girls exhibit greater activation in linguistic areas of the brain while performing language tasks.³⁴ Some research finds that girls retain their advantage in language skills well into their primary and secondary school years,³⁵ and even into later adulthood, for instance in verbal memory skills,³⁶ and word fluency.³⁷ In keeping with Baron-Cohen's theory, both expressive and receptive language skills are commonly impaired in those with autism.