Women claimed to have part of brain missing

* Male graduates are twice as likely to find themselves unemployed as females, a conference heard this week.

Delegates at the Institute of Personnel and Development's annual gathering were told that far from facing a glass ceiling, women today would find themselves on a glass escalator. Simon Howard, chairman of Park Human Resources, said: "I wonder how long it will be before we accept that there is a male employability problem."

However, it was not all good news for women. Australian social researcher and author Allan Pease said it was now proven that women have part of their brain missing. Brain scans have found that 80-85 per cent of women do not have a clearly defined visual spatial area and so find it hard to measure space, distance and speed - which is why they cannot reverse park or read maps.