Creativity and... Psychological Androgeny?

I am taking a class this semester called, "Creativity, Imagination, and Innovation," it is taught by two guys who used to work together at 3M 30 years ago. One of them is now an education professor in Innovation Studies and the other one is a Architect, Business consultant, and teacher at MCAD. It is a super cool class- an example of interdisciplinary studies, my master's degree home. However, most of the class is populated by MBAs and other business people coming back to school. Fascinating discussions so far.

Currently we are reading a book by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced chicks-a-ma-high) a University of Chicago psychologist who wrote the book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. I am reading both this semester- for two different, totally unrelated classes.

Anyways, Csiksz has a number of really interesting observations about 'creative' people; in his research he asserts, "when tests of masculinity/femininity are given to young people, over and over one finds that creative and talented girls are more dominant and tougher than other girls, and creative boys are more sensitive and less aggressive than their male peers," This gives this person an advantage of sorts he believes, "A psychologically androgynous person in effect doubles his or her repertoire of responses and can interact with the world in terms of a much richer and varied spectrum of opportunities."

Of course many people probably cry foul over how 'provable' this is... but maybe they just aren't thinking... well, creativity enough.