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Summary: Hormones may play a role in gender discrimination and how men and women see each other, but more research is required. Find out how hormones helped cave people identify different mates with information from a licensed mental health counselor in this free video on hormones.
Dr. Carol L. Clark has been a licensed mental health counselor since 1993. She is a certified addiction professional, as well, and in 1997 she earned a Ph.D. in human sexuality. She...read more
"Hi. I'm Dr. Carol Clark. I'm a sex therapist and licensed mental health counselor here in Miami, Florida. In this clip, we're going to talk about the role of hormones in gender discrimination. And what do we mean by gender discrimination? Well, it can mean two things. To discriminate can mean, simply, to see the differences in things. Of course, we also think of discrimination as something that is putting down someone for one reason or another. So, when we're talking about the role of hormones in gender discrimination, we can talk about, first, the role of hormones and how do our sex hormones, basically, estrogen for females and testosterone for males, help us to see the differences in other people. In other words, does estrogen, in someone's body, help them pick up on someone else being a male or a female? And vice versa. Which is good for,uh, people in caveman days when they needed to be able to seek potential mates to further the species. Now, if we look at gender discrimination as a way to put down someone of the other sex, then, do men with more testosterone tend to put down women with more estrogen? Well, we don't know. And vice versa. More research needs to be done on that one. Once again, this is Dr. Carol Clark from Miami, Florida."
eHow Article: Role of Hormones in Gender Discrimination