Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men? Career Duration in Nordic and Alpine Skiing

Are women really more talkative than men?

Women are generally assumed to be more talkative than men. Data were analyzed from 396 participants who wore a voice recorder that sampled ambient sounds for several days. Participants' daily word use was extrapolated from the number of recorded words. Women and men both spoke about 16,000 words per day.

Are men more competitive than women?

This study uses competition diaries to see whether women and men differ in (a) what they compete over, (b) whom they compete with, and (c) their competitive tactics, including use of aggression. In Study 1, university students kept diaries of their competitive interactions during the term. Sex differences, few overall, were as follows: (a) men's diaries contained more same-sex competition, (b) ...

Are Women Really More Risk-Averse than Men?

Why women are less likely than men to commit suicide.

Major depression forms the background of upwards of half of all suicides. Women are twice as likely as men to experience major depression, yet women are one fourth as likely as men to take their own lives. Current and past explanations of this paradox are built on androcentric assumptions that women are deficient in some way. The reverse may be true where suicide is concerned. Men value indepen...

Are Women Less Selfish than Men?: Evidence from Dictator Experiments

Research in social sciences other than economics indicates substantial differences in behaviour between men and women. The general conclusion drawn from this work is that women will be more socially-orientated (sel ̄ess), and men more individually-orientated (sel®sh). This paper reports the results of a double-anonymous dictator experiment designed to permit the emergence of basic gender differe...