Men and women are hardwired differently. It is in the genes. The differences are the product of evolution. The first thing we should know about humans is how they are hard wired. Then we can superimpose cultural affect.
E.g. science knows that women are much worse at spatial relations than men, because testosterone quantity is directly correlated to spatial relation abilities. Some women with very low amounts of testosterone, have great difficulty with spatial relations. Men probably had to have better spatial relations as they were the hunters and went afar. Women were the gatherers and stay close to raise the children.
Men and women have many such differences, some we understand and some are still being figured out with regard to nature or nurture e.g. the lower incidence of violence and crime in females. Most people in jail are males by a huge margin. Is this nature or nurture? I think nature;
"There's a pretty hefty gender gap in U.S. federal prisons, and prisons and jails in general. According to the most recent numbers published by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), 93.2 percent of the approximately 185,500 federal inmates are men, and only 6.8 percent are women.Oct 23, 2017."
So one could reasonably deduce that women are more honest and less violent then males which is a great attribute in a president. What about working harder, being more organized, better at communication. Many studies link better language skills with females as an evolutionary product of raising the children.
It seems they are better wired by evolution for over seeing our democracy and rule of law and not getting us into stupid wars. So lets use them to save ourselves. Men protected our species when we were animals, but now we are different and women seem better hard wired to protect our democracy , rule of law and prevent stupid wars.
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These sort of categorical--women versus men--generalizations always trouble me. Whichever way one cuts. I get the argument that women are dramatically under represented in political positions. And democracy will be healthier if they gain more representation. I don't know that that alone will make governing more effective.
I've seen arguments and had experience that get me close to agreeing that women tend to work more collegially than men. But that could easily be because of previous discrimination. If power increasingly moved to women, I suspect they are likely to be as likely to be collegially as men now. Cynic that I am. |
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