Summary: There are several recent scientific studies that show that gender roles are natural. For example one done with monkeys, where the boy monkeys went for boy toys and girl monkeys went for girl toys.

Body of text Recently I had been to Sweden and they have a new trend of saying that gender is some sort of a social construct. I was like WTF?

The fact that men and women are different is "like duh" for most people, however there is this growing trend of people trying to question this. Luckily evolutionary psychology comes to the rescue and we have scientific studies that prove the basic facts that we can see with our eyes. If you are arguing with someone who states that gender is a social construct point them to these studies.

One interesting study that I will point out was done at Emory University and looked at preferences of male and female monkeys for certain types of toys. Surprise, surprise, but the male monkeys went for things like trucks, while the female monkeys went for things like dolls.

To quote the study: “We were quite surprised by how closely the preferences of male and female monkeys for human gender-stereotyped toys paralleled those reported in children,” said Kim Wallen, PhD, study co-author. “Because monkeys are not subjected to advertisements, or to criticism for toy choice, this suggests the monkeys choose the toys on the basis of the activities the toys encourage. Thus, differences in activity preference vary between males and females,” Wallen summarized.

Lessons learnt Men and women are different and that difference is deep-seated in the brain.