What differences are there between women and men?

Here are 20 questions about differences
between women and men.
How many can you get right?

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

http://www.bolandathletics.com/4-5%20The%20difference%20between%20men%20and%20women.pdf
http://www.imagebase.net/People/imagebase17_14
As the bone structure of a
boy develops, he develops
broader shoulders
and narrower hips.

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

Further inspiration
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Question # 4
Who lives longer?

Years that women outlive men
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2011/biodemography.aspx

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201008/why-women-live-longer-men
Women live longer than men mostly
because they avoid a risky lifestyle.
Women avoid risk because they are
primary care-givers.

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.
Through most of history, women lived shorter lives
than men. That changed towards the 15th century.
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?

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
Fortune 500 companies with the highest
percentages of women board directors
outperformed those with the least by 66%
measured by return on invested capital.

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

Further inspiration
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Question # 7
Who rates meaning higher
than pay and status?

Men Women
Most men rate pay and
status higher than
meaning.
Most women rate
meaning higher than
pay and status.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsWWbxLmIS8

Further inspiration
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/What-is-your-purpose-1438787

Question # 8
Who has fewer children:
Female or male leaders?

http://www.mckinsey.com/locations/swiss/news_publications/pdf/women_matter_english.pdf
The higher women climb up the corporate
ladder, the fewer children they have.
For men, it’s the opposite.

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.

Women tend to be a little better
than men on average at sensing
in the moment what the other
person is feeling.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6368484
Daniel Goleman

http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/7216/1/umi-umd-4612.pdf
Women are rated on average as having
greater levels of social competence
than men.

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.
http://youtu.be/UONxT4Tb3C0
Frans de Waal

Women have, on average, more
emotional intelligence than men.
Groups with more women
therefore tend to be smarter.
http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/05/mit-management-professor-tom-malone-on-collective-intelligence-and-the-genetic-structure-of-groups/
Thomas Malone

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

Further inspiration
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Social-competence-1600674

Question # 12
Who has deeper relationships?

Men Women
Men build wide
networks but not deep
relationships.
Women build deep
relationships with a few
people.
Sources
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

Further inspiration
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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

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/men-narcissism_n_6807852.html
Men are more narcissistic than women.

http://www.srf.ch/player/video?id=3702ed16-d306-4aa8-a0f0-11716f6561bf
Men do not feel well when
being interrupted.

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?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/11/19/men-might-be-more-helpful-to-women-in-heels/
Men are more likely than women to help
women who use high heeled shoes.

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

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

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

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200910236
Girl babies pay
attention to facial
expressions.
Boy babies pay
attention to toys.

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

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.

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