"Recognizing gender differences
It’s also important to understand that men and women behave differently at work. The (following) research highlights the way men and women solve problems, network, and negotiate.
- Research on brain functions demonstrate that most men have a more focused and linear thinking approach that favors decisiveness in words and actions.
Women tend to focus more on intuition and collaboration. "
But the flipside to it is that women can become too focused on others (engaged in backstabbing or letting themselves be affected by such tactics) and men can becone too cut-throat and sociopathic.
"The president of Harvard University has provoked a furore by arguing that men outperform women in maths and sciences because of biological difference, and discrimination is no longer a career barrier for female academics.
Research in behavioural genetics is showing that things people previously attributed to socialisation weren't due to socialisation after all," he told the Boston Globe yesterday. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/jan/18/educationsgendergap.genderissues
There Is a small grain of truth in it.. In that at Top Levels -people with extraordinarily high IQ who made it: Einstein, Karpov and so on- men outnomber women.
(Who knows why that is… Could be as he said due to biology, or socialisation, or both)
--- But Not at more intermediate levels, - those with normal or above average IQ- where women are just as good as men.
His problem is that he looked at those 2%, who are on the fringe of the Bell curve, and assumed that everybody else is the same.
Sorry for deviating from the main points, BB - the absurdity of PCnness re minority groups, in this case women - :
But I was thinking.
Drawing from my personal experience IRL and as much as I hate to admit it,
--- up till now If I were to choose between the two: predominantly male teams or predominantly female teams, I would have gone for the first.
Although after what I've seen on Lit., I'm starting to think twice about it