• The symbol for the male sex, which is a circle with a protruding arrow, coincides with the symbol for the planet Mars. The circle and the arrow protruding from it depict the arrow and the shield of the Roman god of war, Mars.
• Men represent fifty percent of the total US workforce, but approximately 90% of work-related fatalities involve men.
• Teenage boys are four times more likely to drop out of school than teen girls.
• Boys account for 75% of the children gaining special education in the U.S.

alteredego/Pixabay. Boys are more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls.

• Boys are also more likely to be diagnosed with the Autism spectrum disorder. In fact, boys are four times more likely to develop an autism disorder in general. Developmental experts are hard at work, studying the cause for the obvious difference between the two genders, but it has been speculated that girls with mild autism are better at masking their symptoms, thereby going undiagnosed.

jarmoluk/Pixabay. Men are thrice more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs than women.

• Men are three times more likely to suffer from alcohol abuse and are twice as likely to abuse drugs like marijuana and cocaine.
• It is no surprise that men’s and women’s brains function differently. Men are more likely to use only one side of the brain when assigned a task whereas women are multitaskers and they tend to use both sides of the brain at once. This is why men are more focused while women can quickly shuffle between various tasks.
• Boys are three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD or ADD than girls.
• Before the 1990s, there was a higher number of male nurses than female nurses. Currently, there are only 5.4% of registered male nurses in the U.S., and only 13% of all nursing students today are

males.

• The suicide rate among men is double when compared to that of females in almost all of the countries around the world. In more totalitarian societies such as Russia, male suicide rates are six times higher than women.

geralt/Pixabay. Men are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety than women.

• Men suffer from greater levels of aggression, depression, anxiety, and violence than women. The male amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for producing emotions, is larger compared to females, which causes aggression and competition among men.
• All embryos, after conception, are assigned the female sex for the first six weeks. After the initial six-week period, if the embryo is male, the Y chromosome’s SRY gene starts to produce testosterone which develops masculine characteristics and inhibits the growth of female features.