“Girls go to Jupiter to have more “stupids”, boys go to Mars to have more candy bars!” Some of us may have heard this kind of crude phraseology during our elementary school years, or perhaps even uttered something similar (excluding today's society, of course). While youthful taunts and jokes often play on and ridicule gender superiority or prejudice, the subject has acquired a much more serious tone in recent times. In education, academia, and the world of work, the notion of gender differences has been defined, redefined, and redefined, in search of a single truth; How different are men and women, if at all? And if such a difference can be demonstrated, what does this mean for equality and real-life experience between the sexes? The pre-feminist concept of gender differences is captured by Harvey C. Mansfield: “In the past, society recognized the differences between the sexes. , and with laws and customs, these differences were accentuated (435). And indeed, it has accentuated them, as women have found themselves without many of the opportunities that their male counterparts enjoy. The lack of such opportunities, including voting rights, education, and property rights, is documented in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Declaration of Sentiments (411). Stanton does not speak to innate gender differences per se, but speaks candidly to the political injustice experienced by American women in the 19th century. She highlights "the equality to which they [women] are entitled" through the prism of the Declaration of Independence, comparing the inequality of women in relation to men with the colonies and the English Crown, to reveal a sad portrait of the feminine person (411-412, italics mine). In the past, gender lines were placed in the center of the paper. ......f intelligence, we do not travel to different planets as boys and girls, nor are we from different planets. planets, as some recent books suggest. We are created and born (on Earth) for distinctly different purposes, with a specialized aptitude for achieving those purposes. Both sexes will be happier, families will be healthier, and communities will be more prosperous and connected when they work to discover and accept their differences and specific gender roles. Admitting that there are differences, subtle or obtuse, in cognitive and physical abilities is simply recognizing our diversity, the oft-touted greatest value of this new era. And this precious diversity is not and should never be an obstacle to equal opportunities or rights in society, but the gentle complementarity present in male and female roles which complements each other..