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India Four Two
I remember an experiment at my university where a Psychology lecturer asked his students to draw a map of how to get from one part of the campus to another. The results supported the quote above. Male student's maps were spatially accurate but lacking in detail, but the female student's maps were the opposite - lots of detail and information to help with enroute navigation but poor spatial accuracy.
It kind-of makes sense if you consider that we evolved as hunter-gatherers. Following gender norms, women would have been foraging in familiar areas, whereas men would have been pursuing animals wherever they chose to go and would then need to find their way home.