there are performances for womenb in those careers. this map shows the gender similarity type is.e have the overlapping distributions. you can see there is huge overlap in which males and females are similar. let me look at psychological disorders because for some disorders we do get very lopsided gender ratios. on the left part of this graph, you can see two disorders were many more men are affected. alcoholism and autism. the blue bar is the preponderance of males. that is not to say we don't have women alcoholics or girls with autism, but it is a preponderance of males. on the right, you can see depression and the eating disorder of anorexia -- it is a preponderance of women shown in the orange bars. we do have these lopsided gender ratios. we wonder why those are. my research has been on gender differences and depression. the gender difference in depression is not present in childhood, but it begins to emerge between 15 and 16 years of age as you can see the orange bar is going up. it widens between 15 and 18 years of age. gender differences in depression emerges in adolescenc