What differences are there between

women and men?

Here are 14 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.pdfhttp://www.imagebase.net/People/imagebase5_03

http://www.bolandathletics.com/4-5%20The%20difference%20between%20men%20and%20women.pdfhttp://www.imagebase.net/People/imagebase17_14

As the bone structure of a boy develops, he develops

broader shoulders and narrower hips.

Further inspiration

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/308135/http://www.bolandathletics.com/4-5%20The%20difference%20between%20men%20and%20women.pdf

Question # 2

For whom is meaning more important 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

http://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/what-is-the-company-purpose

Question # 3

How do women lie? How do men lie?

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-downhttp://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.phphttp://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-downhttp://www.imagebase.net/People/Haiti-2013-148-copy

And men tend to lie to make themselves look better.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-06/uoma-urf061002.phphttp://www.imagebase.net/People/Haiti-2013-148-copy

Question # 4

Who has more social competence?

Women experience more emotionsthan men do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsWWbxLmIS8

Women tend to be a little better

than men on average at sensingin 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 competencethan 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/

Further inspiration

http://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/how-do-you-manage-your-emotionshttp://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/social-competencehttp://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/good-leadershiphttp://youtu.be/Aq_nCTGSfWEhttp://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/10/23/2009/frans-de-waal-and-the-age-of-empathy.html

Question # 5

Who has deeper relationships?

Men Women

Men build wide networks but not deep relationships.

Women build deep relationships with a few people.

Sourceshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsWWbxLmIS8http://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-3862https://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 # 6

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.

Further inspiration

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Question # 7

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/

Further inspiration

http://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/speaking-tips-15818774

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 takes more risks?

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

Under stress, men take more risk and women take less risk.

http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/21/1/36

Further inspiration

http://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/ideas-to-prevent-stresshttp://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/rethinking-recruitment-8077077

Question # 10

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.

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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 behavior.

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 # 11

Who is more aggressive?

Men have 7 to 8 times the concentration

of testosterone in their blood plasma

than women do.

http://blogs.hbr.org/2012/10/what-women-know-that-men-dont/

Question # 12

Who uses morebody language?

When entering a room, women tend to

use 27 distinct behaviours while

men displayed only 12 distinct gestures.

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/10/body-language-improve-patient-encounter.html

Further inspiration

http://issuu.com/frankcalberg/docs/languages

Question # 13

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 # 14

Who likes brightercolours better?

Favourite colours of men

SourceSurvey 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

Background color preferences among male Twitter users

http://www.beevolve.com/twitter-statistics/

http://www.beevolve.com/twitter-statistics/

Background color preferences among female Twitter users

Further inspiration

http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/08/tell-me-something-i-dont-know/http://www.destination-innovation.com/articles/the-innovation-gender-gap/http://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/gender-diversity-9869793

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