Throw like a girl? With some practice, you can do better

Noted: Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology and women?s studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has studied the gender gap across a broad spectrum of skills. She believes that men and women aren?t as different as they are often portrayed, and she has mined data on social, psychological, communication and physical traits, skills and behaviors to quantify the gap. After looking at 46 meta-analyses, Hyde found what she defined as a ?very large? difference in only two skills: throwing velocity and throwing distance.