This was just mentioned on FOX (The Five)
So I did the research
It is a New Zealand Study!!
Women move ahead of men in IQ stakes New Zealand women are winning the battle of the brains and achieving higher intelligence quotient (IQ) scores than men for the first time in 100 years, new research reveals. The discovery was made by University of Otago political philosopher emeritus professor James Flynn, who was renowned for uncovering an overall increase in IQ results across both sexes.
The discovery in the 1980s - dubbed the Flynn Effect - showed that IQ scores in Western countries were higher than they would have been 50 or 100 years earlier.
Now he has found that women's IQ scores have risen faster than men's, but he is not sure why.
Prof Flynn compared IQ test results from the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Argentina, Estonia and countries in Western Europe.
In
Australia, male and female IQs were found to be almost identical. In
New Zealand, Estonia and Argentina, women scored marginally more than men. "As the world gets more complex and living in it demands more abstract thought, so people are adapting," Prof Flynn said.
"The full effect of modernity on women is only just emerging," he said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news ... -IQ-stakes