What Women Do Better Than Men

This article was inspired both by a series of television programmes in which men and women were tested on various tasks to reveal how the brain of one sex or the other works and what common traits one sex shares; and also by the November issue of the magazine "Illustrated Science", which describes scientific studies on the behaviour of men and women in various situations.

In the television programme, four couples were invited and given the task of reading instructions on an A4 sheet of paper and following them. Three men and one woman read the instructions point by point and did all the ridiculous things - acted like a chicken, applied lipstick, took off their clothing - while three women and one man read the instructions all the way to the end, where the final point stated that nothing from the preceding list needed to be done. The results of the experiment confirm that certain common traits among members of the same sex do indeed exist - but there will always be exceptions.

1. Women are better able to empathise and put themselves in another's shoes

A study conducted in 2012 confirmed women's empathy, with the explanation found in the speed of certain nerve signals travelling through the brain. Women are more easily moved; they tend to listen, to sympathise, to show compassion. This is why the stereotype arose that men never cry, while women are capable of bursting into tears watching an emotional film or reading a book.

  
  
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"Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious." (Oscar Wilde)

2. Women are better at perceiving and describing colour nuances

Scientists explain this female ability to distinguish the finest colour nuances through the evolution of humanity as a whole. If the man was a hunter whose vision developed to determine distance, the movement and shape of a subject, then the woman - as keeper of the hearth and preparer of food - had to perceive the finest colour nuances to determine whether the food was cooked, whether a product was fresh enough, whether the gathered mushrooms were edible, and so on.

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3. Women can do several things simultaneously

From an early age, girls watching their mothers have grown accustomed to being - if one can put it this way - multifunctional. In the morning: making breakfast, getting children ready for school, still having time to get dressed and made up themselves, and also answering a phone call or browsing the latest news. A man would never choose to do all of this simultaneously or simply wouldn't be able to. Men concentrate on one task at a time, while women try to encompass several at once.

  
  
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4. Women are better communicators

Already at the age of two, girls have a vocabulary around 20% larger than boys. Women, when communicating, use both hemispheres of the brain, whereas men use only the left hemisphere - which is associated with the grammar of language but not with decoding meaning.

This is precisely why women are better administrators, consultants, support specialists, secretaries, and operators - they can quickly absorb information, explain it, react to questions, and provide answers. Also during school and university, women are better able to interpret information, engage in discussions, and raise their hands far more frequently to answer a teacher's questions.

  
 
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5. Women are more critical

Unlike men - who, after even a first not particularly brilliant date, are convinced they have totally enchanted the woman - women are far more critical. Women usually don't misread the signals sent by the opposite sex; rather, they are much more cautious and therefore deliberate and hesitate for longer.
Women also assess their own physical appearance far more critically, which is why the stereotype arose that women spend much longer in front of the mirror or trying on various outfits.

  
  
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But there are always exceptions...