The differences extend to the other senses. Women react faster, and more acutely, to pain, although their overall resistance to long-term discomfort is greater than men's. Women are simply better equipped to notice things to which men are completely blind and deaf. Women are better at picking up social cues, picking up important nuances of meaning from tones of voice or intensity of expression. Men sometimes become exasperated at a woman's reaction to what they say.
Women tend to be better judges of character.
Older females have a better memory for names and faces, and a greater sensitivity to other people's preferences. Sex differences have been noted in the comparative memory of men and women. The hormones, as we will see, determine the distinct male or female organisation of the brain as it develops in the womb. We share the same sexual identity for only the first few weeks after conception. Thereafter, in the womb, the very structure and pattern of the brain begins to take specifically male or female form.