Why is there more of a gender gap with puberty than there was with potty-training?

Everybody knows that boys are immature with a capitol "I" in comparison to girls -- they complete potty-training, puberty, and most everything else at a higher age. However, while the average age difference with potty-training fluctuates between 3 and 6 MONTHS in most studies conducted, similar methods of research have found the age difference in most pubertal traits (like the peak in the growth spurt) to be somewhere between 1 and 3 YEARS. The average girl menstruates around 12.5, but not until about 14 does the average boy sound like a man, however, while 2.5 is about average for a girl to be potty-trained, age 4 is over a year higher than the average age for boys. Why are boys and girls so much closer to a tie in potty-training than they are at puberty?

Why is there more of a gender gap with puberty than there was with potty-training?
Because potty training has to do with training from the parents. Puberty is natural and it can't be induced.
Reply:well potty training is taught like reading or drawing, and is up to the parents to choice the right time for it to happen.


puberty is nature choice and depends on genes and the media, how you eat the average temperature and presure of the location you live and other factors. Anyway being breeding one of the big goals of nature a woman being fertile once a month need the most possible fertile years n order to breed more (although not necessarily means they're body is ready to do so)also you can´t compare a change of voices to the menstruation process it would be more likely to when a Lil boy stop having dry orgasm which is around 12 or 13...beside although the changes are less noticeable a woman body keeps changing to fit adulthood after the 20´s
Reply:is this a serious question?Potty training is just learning something.Puberty is a change in the humans body.Things grow, change shape, and you look at things a little different.
Reply:developmental psychology.... potty training is controlling a physical action ... puberty is hormonal and subject to when they activate ...
Reply:If you know this much already, why are u asking us?





Obviously, the obvious gender differences created by puberty are from hormonal changes that haven't occured at such young ages.





If you need more "why" then I'd say b/c there is no evolutionary advantage to asserting the gender differences before procreation is possible.