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, its 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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