Women are better at multitasking then Men?

Opinion:

That's the claim being made by a team of British researchers. "We have all heard stories that either men can't multitask or that women are exceptionally good at multi-tasking," says British psychologist Keith Laws, a professor at the University of Hertfordshire. But Laws and his colleagues couldn't find any research that had been done to prove or disprove the theory. So they set up a study to settle the matter. This might be a fact found from the researches. However, their sample data is too limited to have this generalization. They must have a larger quantity sample to prove this theory was right. This theory was also supported by the media in movies where a perfect CEO women handles her job, phone, household and company altogether. Thus this generalization is too some extent false.



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Researchers did a study last year in which 50 male and 50 female students were given eight minutes to perform simple tasks like math problems, finding a restaurant on a map and sketching a strategy as to how they would find a lost key in an imaginary field—all while receiving a phone call that they had the choice whether to answer or not, where answering meant being given an additional general knowledge test.

The female students ended up performing admirably, while the men did average. The same researchers attributed this result to the notion that women are just plain old better at reflecting on a problem and juggling other tasks at the same time.
Source: http://www.thesmokingjacket.com/humor/women-vs-men-comparison

Males are more aggressive than Females

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The fact that males are more aggressive than females has to do with biological, psychological, and social factors. Research shows in addition that males are more likely than females to behave in an aggressive manner. There is evidence that differences in socialization, cognition and personality may help explain gender-based disparity in rates of anti-social, as well as violent behaviors. Gender differences in cognition, socialization, and behavior may exist as early as infancy. This is when boys are able to express themselves at a higher rate. Infant girls show greater control over their emotions, whereas boys are more easily angered and depend more on inputs from their mother's. This is a factual information and is exposed by the media widely. This is not considered to be a part of gender stereotype that the media manipulates.


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Males view aggression as an appropriate means to gain status. Boys are also more likely to socialize with deviant peers. When boys socialize with prodigious peers they display personality traits that make them more susceptible to delinquency. A researcher by the name of Jean Botcher found that youth males believe their roles are to be more dominant than youth females. The male perception of power, the ability to have freedom and spend time with their friends, act as an aid in explaining the gender differences in delinquency. Girls are shielded by moral sense, which directs them away from harming other's. The ethical sensitivity may counterbalance the effects of family issues. Females are known to display more self-control than males, which is a factor of criminality. Females are more verbally skilled, which is a skill that can help them in dealing with obstacles they may come across without reacting with violence. When girls are aggressive, they are more likely than males to hide their behavior from adults. Girls are expected to from closer relationship's with their friends and to share feelings, boys tend to act out on their feelings in inappropriate ways.


Resources: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/386815/why_males_are_more_aggressive_than.html

Women loves to Shop more then men does

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Women are happy to meander through sprawling clothing and accessory collections or detour through the shoe department. They like to glide up glass escalators past a grand piano, or spray a perfume sample on themselves on their way to, maybe, making a purchase. For men, shopping is a mission. They are out to buy a targeted item and flee the store as quickly as possible, according to new Wharton research. However, this is a gender stereotype created by media. They portray all women in movies a shopaholic , and thus has become a common stereotype in today's world. However, this is a generalization. One example of it is that, not every women likes to SHOP! One of my friend that is a women doesn't like to go shopping, instead she likes to mend the house garden more. On the other hand, my male friend is a shopaholic. He would go shopping generally 3-4x per week. Therefore, this generalization created by the Media cannot be accepted.

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In a study titled, "Men Buy, Women Shop," researchers at Wharton's Jay H. Baker Retail Initiative and the Verde Group, a Toronto consulting firm, found that women react more strongly than men to personal interaction with sales associates. Men are more likely to respond to more utilitarian aspects of the experience -- such as the availability of parking, whether the item they came for is in stock, and the length of the checkout line.

"Women tend to be more invested in the shopping experience on many dimensions," says Robert Price, chief marketing officer at CVS Caremark and a member of the Baker advisory board. "Men want to go to Sears, buy a specific tool and get out."

As one female shopper between the ages of 18 and 35 told the researchers: "I love shopping. I love shopping even when I have a deadline. I just love shopping." Compare that to this response from a male in the same age group who described how men approach retailing: "We're going to this store and we buy it and we leave because we want to do something else."

Price says women's role as caregiver persists even as women's professional responsibilities mount. He speculates that this responsibility contributes to women's more acute shopping awareness and higher expectations. On the other hand, after generations of relying on women to shop effectively for them, men's interest in shopping has atrophied.

Source: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1848

Women more emotional than men

Opinion: Because, women really are ruled by their hormones.

Members of the fairer sex are more sensitive to a key stress hormone - with even small amounts sending their emotions into a whirl, research shows.

Men, in contrast, are relatively immune to even high amounts of the chemical. People mostly think that this is a stereotype. This is a fact and is not a gender stereotype created by media (dailymail.co.uk). This is due to their hormones system and the monthly menstrual cycle. However men does not go through the monthly cycle and does not feel the pain of women, thus they do not understand women. Therefore it is not right to say that is it a stereotype. However, not all women are more emotional than man. Man who is 'gay' tend to be more emotional. Thus this generalization cannot be used.

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The new research focused on a hormone that organises stress responses in mammals. It found females were more responsive to it

This perhaps explains why they often take a more laid-back view of potential crises - infuriating the women in their lives in the process.

Researchers say the U.S. study could help explain the differences in the way men and women control their emotions.

Women have higher rates of depression,post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety problems than men. However no one has yet been able to pinpoint a biological reason for the difference.The study focused on a stress hormone called corticotropinreleasing factor (CRF) which helps control the body's reaction to stress.CRF is known to play a role in human psychiatric conditions. Study leader Dr Rita Valentino, of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said: 'This is an animal study carried out on rats and we cannot say that the biological mechanism is the same in people.'But researchers already know that CRF regulation is disrupted in stress-related psychiatric disorders, so this research may be relevant to the underlying human biology. This may help to explain why women are twice as vulnerable as men to stress-related disorders.'In the study, brain cells of female rats were excited by doses of CRF that were too low to affect cells in male rats, the journal Molecular Psychiatry reports.

Experiments showed that the hormone bound more tightly to brain cell proteins of stressed-out female rats, making them more sensitive to its effects. The male rats, however, were able to reduce levels of the protein, stopping the hormone from binding and reducing its effects on the brain.Since much of the previous animal research on stress used only males, important sex differences may have gone undetected, hampering the development of effective drugs for women. 'Pharmacology researchers investigating CRF antagonists (blocking agents) as drug treatments for depression may need to take into account gender differences at the molecular level,' said Dr Valentino.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1286817/Women-prone-emotional-stress-men-sensitivity-hormone.html