Mother and Father tongues in Math?

So this really doesn't have anything to do with oral knowledge, but it relates back to the Le Guinn article and the ideas of "father" and "mother tongues."  It's an excerpt from a book I'm reading for my Math Ed class.

"The idea that girls and women value a different type of knowing was famously proposed by Carol Gilligan, an internationally acclaimed psychologist and author.  In Gilligan's book In a Different Voice, she claimed that women are likely to be "connected thinkers," preferring to use intuition, creativity, and personal experience when making moral judgments.  Men, she proposed, are more likely to be "separate" thinkers, preferring to use logic, rigor, absolute truth, and rationality when making moral decisions."

The author of the book uses these ideas to argue that girls and boys understand math differently, with girls usually requiring an explanation of how and why a process or formula works and boys getting by just fine without in depth explanations.
I just thought it was cool that the same ideas we've addressed in a Civilization class showed up in a class preparing me to teach math