The war between the sexes has been going on forever! From the passing from matriarchy to the Lords of the house to the Christina Aguilera "can't hold us down" music video clip and from the bugs bunny version of the cave man droping his weapon on the head of his crush and dragging her over to the bushes to Mr. Summers, former Harvard University president, statement that natural ability may be one of the reasons why there are fewer female than male maths proffessors at Harvard, the on going dispute has been developing on many levels.
For many years now we tend to believe or at least try to put forward the idea that the difference between the two sexes can be mostly attributed to society and upbringing and very little is actually innate. Yet, when boys and girls are born, they already are different! A clear sign of that is the fact that they favor different toys from the beggining. For example, a one-day-old girl will look for longer at a face than at a mechanical mobile, whereas a boy will prefer the mobile.
In the adult world. Male brains are about 9% bigger than female ones (this is actually attributed to the fact that men are generally larger than women) yet female brains have a higher percentage of grey matter than the male ones.
For many years now we tend to believe or at least try to put forward the idea that the difference between the two sexes can be mostly attributed to society and upbringing and very little is actually innate. Yet, when boys and girls are born, they already are different! A clear sign of that is the fact that they favor different toys from the beggining. For example, a one-day-old girl will look for longer at a face than at a mechanical mobile, whereas a boy will prefer the mobile.
In the adult world. Male brains are about 9% bigger than female ones (this is actually attributed to the fact that men are generally larger than women) yet female brains have a higher percentage of grey matter than the male ones.
Further more, in most intellectual areas, such as vocabulary and verbal reasoning, the differences between men and women are statistically insignificant. But the long tail of mathematical genious does tend to be male, along with higher rates of idiocy and masturbation.
Yet even though the differences between the sexes have been attributed to society alone women have long been the targets of a male oriented sexism that seems to give more value to the characteristics that are apparently attributed to males such as intelligence (!), stability, power and so on. Due to this prejudice men are more frequently promoted to important posts and repeatedly get higher paychecks.
The difference is there and it is true but women are indeed quite unfairly the targets of this discrimination since they are emotionally intelligent more often than men.
When asked to judge when someone might have said something potentially hurtful, girls score higher from at least seven years old. Women are also more sensitive to facial expressions. They are better at decoding non-verbal communication, picking up subtle nuances from tone of voice or facial expression, or judging a person's character.
In the new workplace, you particularly want to know that. Your business and your future depend on EQ.
Women are then the hot stuff for future employers, maybe it is truly time to revise our views on which is the weaker sex.
