Boys are being outclassed by girls at both school and university, and the gap is widening

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47. It's called the corpus callosum

The corpus callosum -- the bridge of nerve tissue that connects the right and left sides of the brain -- had a thicker measurement in female fetuses than in male fetuses.

Observations of adult brains show that this area may remain stronger in females. "Females seem to have language functioning in both sides of the brain," says Martha Bridge Denckla, PhD, a research scientist at Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Consider these recent findings. Researchers, using brain imaging technology that captures blood flow to "working" parts of the brain, analyzed how men and women process language. All subjects listened to a novel. When males listened, only the left hemisphere of their brains was activated. The brains of female subjects, however, showed activity on both the left and right hemispheres.

This activity across both hemispheres of the brain may result in the strong language skills typically displayed by females. "If there's more area dedicated to a set of skills, it follows that the skills will be more refined," says David Geary, PhD, professor of psychological sciences at the University of Missouri.

http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/how-male-female-brains-differ

In the entire sample (n= 316), controlling for brain size and age, the average CCA was significantly (P< 0.03) larger in females.

http://m.cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/10/2514

Hard to disprove an actual scan of the brain showing this part is larger in girls. If you have evidence to showing this is not the case, I'd like to read it.