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Pinker also writes that "the data reveal a handful of different catalysts for people's choices—many with neurological or hormonal roots, and others that reflect workplaces designed to fit the male standard—that mesh to create the real gender gap." Brizendine suggests that women "have been fighting to adapt to a man's world—after all, women's brains are wired to be good at changing."