mens are from mars and women's from venus

Together with my girlfriends we used it as a manual to try and understand some of the more baffling behaviour of our partners. I remember my boyfriend’s mother lending me her well-thumbed copy. Since then it has remained a popular way of explaining common problems couples face trying to get along.ĭuring the mid 1990s, it seemed almost every woman I knew was reading Men Are From Mars. It has been more than 20 years since John Gray’s bestselling book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus helped define relationships for a generation of women based on differences between the sexes. I think that science is used to justify gender difference as natural but there is resounding evidence that our culture, society, norms, expectations, customs and ideologies play the most significant role in shaping the gender order.” Gender difference 'is an outmoded and limited way of seeing relationships and I think it is an easy way to operate within relationships because it justifies behaviour and patterns in some relationships. “This research confirms something we already knew”, she says. Dr Kellie Burns, a gender expert from the University of Sydney welcomed the new research as an important step in challenging ideas around gender.

Mens are from mars and women's from venus