Women
and
men
Here are 20 questions about differences between women and men. How many can you get right?
Question # 1 Who weighs more?
The body size of men is, on average, 10% larger than that of women. Hofstede, Geert: Cultures and organizations, p. 137 and 462.
As the bone structure of a girl develops, she develops
broader hips and narrower shoulders. http://www.bolandathletics.com/4-5%20The%20difference%20between%20men%20and%20women.pdf http://www.imagebase.net/People/imagebase5_03
As the bone structure of a boy develops, he develops
broader shoulders and narrower hips. http://www.bolandathletics.com/4-5%20The%20difference%20between%20men%20and%20women.pdf http://www.imagebase.net/People/imagebase17_14
Question # 2 Who is more aggressive?
Men have 7 to 8 times the concentration of testosterone in their blood plasma than women do. https://hbr.org/2012/10/what-women-know-that-men-dont
Question # 3 Who takes more risks?
Under stress, men take more risk and women take less risk.
http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/21/1/36
Women tend to apply for senior roles if they consider that they meet 100% of selection criteria. Men apply if they think they meet 60% of requirements. http://issuu.com/keymedia/docs/hc1108_emag/1
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Question # 4 Who lives longer?
Years that women outlive men
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2011/biodemography.aspx
Women live longer than men mostly because they avoid a risky lifestyle. Women avoid risk because they are primary care-givers. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201008/why-women-live-longer-men
Through most of history, women lived shorter lives than men. That changed towards the 15th century. 4 reasons 1. Later age at marriage led to fewer pregnancies - thereby reducing women's risk of dying in childbirth. 2. Access to food and health care within households became more equal. 3. Greater migration and trade increased the spread of disease, disadvantaging men. 4. Urban settings led to more competition for mates, causing increased male risk-taking behaviour. http://www.prb.org/Articles/2011/biodemography.aspx
Question # 5 Do the best performing companies have the most women or the most men in top management?
Fortune 500 companies with the highest percentages of women board directors outperformed those with the least by 66% measured by return on invested capital. Sources http://www.catalyst.org/media/companies-more-women-board-directors-experience-higher-financial-performance-according-latest http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/organization/changing_companies_minds_about_women
Firms with women in top management positions perform better - especially if the firms pursue an innovation intensive strategy, in which creativity and collaboration are especially important.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/308135/
Question # 6 Who is more creative?
The reason men are seen as more creative is a belief that it takes autonomy, independence, and thinking that diverges from the status quo. These are seen as masculine traits. https://hbr.org/2015/12/even-women-think-men-are-more-creative
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Question # 7 Who rates meaning higher than pay and status?
Men
Women
Most men rate pay and Most women rate status higher than meaning higher than meaning. pay and status.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsWWbxLmIS8
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Question # 8 Who has fewer children: Female or male leaders?
The higher women climb up the corporate ladder, the fewer children they have. For men, it’s the opposite. http://www.mckinsey.com/locations/swiss/news_publications/pdf/women_matter_english.pdf
Question # 9 Who speaks English better?
Women speak English better than men in almost all countries and age groups.
http://www.ef.edu/epi/
Question # 10 What do women lie about? What do men lie about?
Women tend to lie about their age and their weight.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201105/why-men-lie-and-women-lie-down http://www.imagebase.net/People/094-copy
And women tend to lie to make the person they are talking to feel good.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-06/uoma-urf061002.php http://www.imagebase.net/People/094-copy
Men tend to lie about their earnings and their height.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201105/why-men-lie-and-women-lie-down http://www.imagebase.net/People/Haiti-2013-148-copy
Men tend to lie to make themselves look better. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-06/uoma-urf061002.php http://www.imagebase.net/People/Haiti-2013-148-copy
Question # 11 Who has more social competence?
Women experience more emotions than men do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsWWbxLmIS8
Women tend to be a little better than men on average at sensing in the moment what the other person is feeling. Daniel Goleman
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6368484
Women are rated on average as having
greater levels of social competence than men. http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/7216/1/umi-umd-4612.pdf
Board members observed that female directors tended to seek the opinions of others and tried to ensure that everyone in the boardroom take part in the discussion. https://hbr.org/2015/02/women-directors-change-how-boards-work
Empathy derives, originally, from maternal care. Frans de Waal http://youtu.be/UONxT4Tb3C0
Women have, on average, more emotional intelligence than men. Groups with more women therefore tend to be smarter. Thomas Malone http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/05/mit-management-professor-tom-malone-on-collective-intelligence-and-the-genetic-structure-of-groups/
Women cooperate more than men in mixed-sex interactions.
However, male-male interactions are more cooperative than female-female interactions. http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2011-20484-001/
Around the world women are more likely to vote for parties that place a higher value on compassion than men.
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21653626-claims-women-manage-differently-fromor-better-thanmen-are-questionable-sex-boardroom
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Question # 12 Who has deeper relationships?
Men Women Men build wide Women build deep networks but not deep relationships with a few relationships. people. Sources http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsWWbxLmIS8 http://www.economist.com/node/21538162?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/contactsports
Men get a lot more help from their contacts than women do from their contacts. Study by Lily Fang and Sterling Huang of 1,815 Wall Street analysts. http://knowledge.insead.edu/women-in-business/your-rolodex-matters-but-by-how-much-depends-on-your-gender-3862 https://hbr.org/2015/02/why-network-more-is-bad-advice-for-women
Gender distribution on Twitter
http://www.beevolve.com/twitter-statistics/
Protected accounts by gender on Twitter
http://www.beevolve.com/twitter-statistics/
Question # 13 Who is less likely to get feedback at work?
Women are more than 20% less likely than men to receive difficult feedback that helps improve their performance.
https://hbr.org/2016/04/research-vague-feedback-is-holding-women-back https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/managers-give-women-less-feedback
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Question # 14 Who is more likely to disregard guidance from others?
Studies show that men are more likely than women to disregard guidance from others.
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/re00162?pg=all
Men are more narcissistic than women.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/men-narcissism_n_6807852.html
Men do not feel well when being interrupted.
http://www.srf.ch/player/video?id=3702ed16-d306-4aa8-a0f0-11716f6561bf
Question # 15 Who uses more body language?
When entering a room, women tend to use 27 distinct behaviours. Men displayed only 12 distinct gestures. http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/10/body-language-improve-patient-encounter.html
Question # 16 Whose voice do people find more pleasing?
Scientific studies have shown that people generally find women's voices more pleasing than men's. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/21/tech/innovation/female-computer-voices/
Question # 17 Who is more likely to help women, who use shoes with high heels?
Men are more likely than women to help women who use high heeled shoes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/11/19/men-might-be-more-helpful-to-women-in-heels/
Question # 18 Who likes brighter colours better?
Favourite colours of men
Source Survey of 232 people from 22 countries. http://advertiser-in-arabia.blogspot.com/2011/03/true-colors-colors-by-gender.html
Favourite colours of women
Source Survey of 232 people from 22 countries. http://advertiser-in-arabia.blogspot.com/2011/03/true-colors-colors-by-gender.html
Question # 19 Who recognizes faces better?
When women were shown images of unfamiliar people, eye-tracking technology showed that they fixed upon the faces 10% to 40% more times than men did. http://blogs.hbr.org/daily-stat/2013/07/why-women-are-better-than-men.html
Girl babies pay attention to facial expressions.
Boy babies pay attention to toys.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200910236
Question # 20 Who listens better?
A man tends to listen for a solution. What is the problem? How can we solve it? Bang. Thank you very much. On to the next thing.
http://wunc.org/post/how-can-we-all-listen-better#stream/0
A woman tends to listen in an expansive way. She goes with the flow and is present with the person. She enjoys the journey with the person she listens to.
http://wunc.org/post/how-can-we-all-listen-better#stream/0
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