Gender and place experience

Men and women can experience spaces in slightly different ways from time to time: Women have a better sense of touch than men, in technical terms, they are more “tactically sensitive” than men. This is because basically everyone has the same number of nerve endings on the end of their fingers, for example, and since women are often shorter/smaller than men, for women those nerve endings are closer together, so women may note changes or problems with textures that men…

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