As it turns out there is at least one thing men are better than women at - spatial skills. Umm...yeah? However, men shouldn't celebrate just yet, because evidence has shown that if a woman plays enough action games, she can improve her spatial skills so they are on the same level as men. Videogames - the equalizer of the sexes.

From the article:

While research has consistently shown that the male brain has advantages in spatial skills like geometry, interpreting technical drawings and reading maps, a new study says that playing action-oriented video games can equalize the sexes in that regard.

Researchers at the University of Toronto report they have observed a potential key component in the brains’ ability to process spatial information. It could account for the difference in abilities between the sexes. Jing Feng, lead author of the study, explains:

On average, women are not quite as good at rapidly switching attention among different objects and this may be one reason why women do not do as well on spatial tasks.

Even more important is what the research team discovered next:

Our second experiment showed that both men and women can improve their spatial skills by playing a video game and that the women catch up to the men… Moreover, the improved performance of both sexes was maintained when we assessed them again after five months.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com