GENDER DIFFERENCE
Biological Differences:
The basal metabolic rate is about 6 percent higher in adolescent boys than girls and increases to about 10 per cent higher after puberty. Women tend to convert more food into fat, while men convert more into muscle and expendable circulating energy reserves. At age eighteen, men (on average) have about 50 percent more muscle mass than women in the upper body, 10 to 15 percent more in the lower. Men, on average, have denser, stronger bones, tendons, and ligaments. This allows for heavier work.
Men dissipate heat faster than women through their sweat glands. Women have a greater insulation and energy reserves stored in subcutaneous fat, withstanding cold better, and performing better in activities requiring extraordinary endurance. Sex differences in endurance events are less significant than for sprinting events.
Men typically have larger tracheae and branching bronchi, with about 30 percent greater lung volume per body mass. They have......
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