According to an excerpt titled Women's Brains by Stephen Jay Gould, there has been a misconception about the intelligence of women. Throughout his article, he gave several examples of how a professor of clinical surgery such as Paul Broca draws conclusions about women's intelligence. According to Broca, “women, like it or not, had smaller brains than men and, therefore, could not equal them in intelligence” (1). Another reference used by the author was a student at Broca's school in Paris, Le Bon. The good one maintains that “women's brains are more like those of a gorilla than those of men” (2). However, Gould disagreed with Brocan and Le Bon, with Gould's argument focusing on skull size, brain dimensions, and perspectives of the late 1800s. Taking the time to write about women was just an example to show the absurdity of Broca and Le bon and therefore he did not need to tell people with his essay that women are more intelligent than men. In his essay he also mentions Maria Montessori, professor of anthropology at the University of Rome. Montessori argues that women, after appropriate correction of the data presented by Broca and Le Bon, "women had slightly larger brains than men. Women, she concluded, were intellectually superior, but men