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Tests have already shown that girls do better at school than boys and continue to do so through university.

The latest study theorises that women's brains simply carry on performing for longer because they live longer and so need to be mentally active at a greater age.

Doctors carried out memory and recognition word and number tests on every 85 year old who was willing in the Dutch town of Leiden.

Thirty-three per cent of women, compared to 28 per cent of men had good speed in their replies while four in ten women but three in ten men had a good memory.

The results are published today in the British Medical Association's Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Women Rising in Corporate Ranks

By Kirstin Downey

Washington Post - November 19, 2002

Nancy Pelosi's ascent to the Democratic Party leadership in the House of Representatives reflects the steady progress of women in the political world. According to a new report, women also continue to climb the corporate ladder.

Women now hold 15.7 percent of corporate officer positions at large U.S. public companies, up from 8.7 percent in 1995, according to the report by Catalyst, a New York City-based research group. There are six female chief executives among the Fortune 500 firms, up from two in 1995. And women now make up 5.2 percent of all top-earning executives, up from 1.2 percent seven years ago, when Catalyst first began studying female employment patterns.