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The conflict between parenting and career is hardwired in the female brain.In the struggle for equality between the sexes, it keeps coming down to motherhood, doesn’t it? Consider a recent article by Hanna Rosin in The Atlantic. Rosin finds that nursing her infant is holding her back from the work she enjoys, despite her plan for a fully egalitarian marriage. “We were raised to expect that co-parenting was an attainable goal,” she laments, yet breast-feeding ties her, and not her husband, to their baby. She combs through research on the health benefits of breast-feeding for babies and makes a convincing...

AOL Book Maven Bethanne Patrick Interviews Louann Brizendine, M.D., author of 'The Female Brain.' Dr. Louann Brizendine may be a neuropsychiatrist, but she hasn't forgotten how to speak to the General Public: "Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road," she writes. Men, however, "have O'Hare Airport as a hub for processing thoughts about sex, where women have the airfield nearby that lands small and private planes." Brizendine, the 53-year-old Yale-trained head of the Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic at UCSF, pulls no punches when it comes to explaining that...

San Francisco neuropsychiatrist says differences between women's and men's brains are very real, and the sooner we all understand it, the better -------------------------------------------- Louann Brizendine's feminist ideals were forged in the 1970s, so the UCSF neuropsychiatrist is aware that some parts of her new book, "The Female Brain," sound politically incorrect. Such as the part about how a financially independent woman may talk about finding a soul mate, but when she meets a prospective mate her brain is subconsciously sizing up his portfolio. Or the part describing the withdrawal pains moms feel when they return to work and can no...