There are many different theoretical approaches through which one can achieve these aims, and there is a considerable range of disagreement about what theories and even what facts should prevail. By virtue of their different physical locations, and the different social and psychological orientations that emerge as they live in and through the world, people experience differently from one another, and know differently from one another. People have different knowledge of others, by virtue of their different personal and social relationships to them. What one 'knows of' another depends on how they act toward one, which depends on their relationship to one. People have different dispositions towards events, ideas and actions, depending on their beliefs and experiences.
Consequently people experience their worlds differently.
These differences create different background webs of belief against which information to which men and women have in principle equal access may be processed. The differences are also informed by the constructions, institutions and exercises of power in society. Ideology also obscures anything which might counter it. Nevertheless gender is a major division, with women generally being deprivileged. The general claim of muted group theory is amply supported by studies in socio-linguistics.