Men and Women, Which are smarter

This is a writing subject that my composition teacher came up the other day in class. This is not official subject for my essay assignment or anything, but I want think about the supporting reasons for both sides.

At first, I thought that there is no absolute answer to the smartness between men and women, but of course the teacher said you have to pick one side for academic writing practice. I am a woman, so of course I wanted to take women's side but the funny thing is I couldn't come up with three supporting reasons for that... I was thinking about the definition of smartness and three possible reasons for my statement.

I asked Fumiko about what she would write, and she said she wants to say women are smarter too, but she would write men are smarter. She gave me three suportive reasons for that too. 1) historically, men have better job that women, 2)men are good at focusing on one issue, while women tend to think about surroundings, 3)men are good at working under a lot of stress. I these are totally right. But I disagree with her main point. and she does too.

But if I just insist on saying I disagree on this statement but cannot come up with reasons, I will sound uneducated.. so if anyone have good reason to prove that women are smarter than men, or know good book to read about this, let me know.