Women have been bemoaning since the dawn of language the fact that men just don’t seem to listen well. Finally, comes evidence of what we’ve been trying to explain all along. It’s not that we don’t care or aren’t trying. Researchers at the University of Rochester have discovered that the hormone estrogen plays a crucial role in how the brain processes auditory information. So it seems that the deficiency is biological rather than motivational. Which I’m sure doesn’t get any of us off the hook.