Boys & Girls

Swear to God, Hope to Die, this is from the latest New Scientist magazine. (June 28, 2008 issue, p. 21). The wording used is literal astroblab for Venus (girls) and Mars (boys):

Who ever said that girls aren't competitive? Girls are no less competitive than boys, they're simply subtler about it, a study of pre-schoolers suggests. While boys use head-on aggression to get what they want, girls rely on the pain of social exclusion."

Just love how they literally use "head-on" for the boys' aggression, Mars rules the head. The researchers gave the kids a desirable toy to fight over and then sat back and watched Venus and Mars go for it in their own astrological textbook way (love the sadistic streak of the researchers):

Boys tended to ask for the puppet, grab at it, or even chase the child who had it. By contrast, girls punished the puppet-holder by excluding her from their clique, whispering behind her back or even hiding from her."

Something else I was thinking about is that Mars rules the 1st House and Venus rules the 7th House which is well known but I never really related to Mars and Venus before. Their rulerships sort of split the Wheel up into lower and upper in a way that corresponds with the rulerships of those hemispheres. The lower half of the chart is considered the personal development phase of an individual. The upper half is considered the social development phase.
Venus also rules Taurus, the sign right after Aries but this study shows its influence from the Libra point of view.