Women have lot of restrictions as compared to men. More work to do for family , get less time for studies still get more marks than an average male , are as intelligent as male. I think women are more efficient than male. Still in many countries there is gender inequality and discrimination. Why it is so?
Hello,
What an interesting question.
Don't you think that men and women just have different attributes? See the introduction to this paper:
Upadhayay, N., & Guragain, S. (2014). Comparison of cognitive functions between male and female medical students: a pilot study. Journal of clinical and diagnostic research: JCDR, 8(6), BC12.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Namrata_Upadhayay/publication/264797888
I think, as time goes on, inequality will be steadily reduced; look at the UK before the Suffragette movement.
Often the sexes will complement each other. So together, more is possible.
But women do lose time in their working lives in childbearing, even if they return to work as soon as able.
I will follow this with interest.
Very best wishes,
Mary
1) A woman has greater constitutional vitality, perhaps because of her unique chromosomal pattern. Normally, she outlives a man by three or four years in the U.S. Females simply have a stronger hold on life than males, even in the uterus. More than 140 male babies are conceived for every 100 females; by the time birth occurs, the ratio is 105 to 100, with the rest of the males dying in spontaneous abortions.
2) Men have a higher incidence of death from almost every disease except three: benign tumors, disorders related to female reproduction, and breast cancer.
3) Men have a higher rate of basal metabolism than women.
4) The sexes differ in skeletal structure, women having a shorter head, broader face, less protruding chin, shorter legs, and longer trunk. The first finger of a woman's hand is usually longer than the third; with men the reverse is true. Boys' teeth last longer than do those of girls.
5) Women have a larger stomach, kidneys, liver, and appendix, and smaller lungs than men.
6 Women have three very important physiological functions totally absent in men--menstruation, pregnancy, and lactation. Each of these mechanisms influences behavior and feelings significantly. Female hormonal patterns are more complex and varied. The glands work differently in the two sexes. For example, a woman's thyroid is larger and more active; it enlarges during menstruation and pregnancy, which makes her more prone to goiter, provides resistance to cold, and is associated with the smooth skin, relatively hairless body, and the thin layer of subcutaneous fat that are important elements in the concept of personal beauty. Women are also more responsive emotionally, laughing and crying more readily.
7) Women's blood contains more water (20 percent fewer red cells). Since red cells supply oxygen to the body, she tires more easily and is more prone to faint. Her constitutional viability is therefore strictly a long-range matter. When the working day in British factories, under wartime conditions, was increased from ten to twelve hours, accidents among women increased 150 percent; the rate of accidents among men did not increase significantly.
8) Men are 50 percent stronger than women in brute strength.
9) Women's hearts beat more rapidly than those of men (80 versus 72 beats per minute). Their blood pressure (ten points lower than men) varies more from minute to minute, but they have much less tendency to high blood pressure--at least until after menopause.
10) Female lung capacity is about 30 percent less than in males.
11) Women can withstand high temperatures better than men because their metabolism slows down less.
12) Men and women differ in every cell of their bodies because they carry a differing chromosomal pattern. The implications of those genetic components range from obvious to extremely subtle. For example, when researchers visited high school and college campuses to study behavior of the sexes, they observed that males and females even transported their books in different ways. The young men tended to carry them at their sides with their arms looped over the top. Women and girls, by contrast, usually cradled their books at their breasts, in much the same way they would a baby.
13)Who can estimate how many other sex-related influences lie below the level of consciousness?
14) Women on the other hand have four times as many brain cells (neurons) connecting the right and left side of their brain. This latter finding provides physical evidence that supports the observation that men rely easily and more heavily on their left brain to solve one problem one step at a time.
15) Women have more efficient access to both sides of their brain and therefore greater use of their right brain.
16) Women can focus on more than one problem at one time and frequently prefer to solve problems through multiple activities at a time.
17) Women tend to be intuitive global thinkers
18)Women have an enhanced ability to recall memories that have strong emotional components. They can also recall events or experiences that have similar emotions in common.
19)Women are very adept at recalling information, events or experiences in which there is a common emotional theme
20) women have an enhanced physical alarm response to danger or threat. Their autonomic and sympathetic systems have a lower threshold of arousal and greater reactivity than men.
The physical differences between men and women provide functional advantages and have survival value. Men usually have greater upper body strength, build muscle easily, have thicker skin, bruise less easily and have a lower threshold of awareness of injuries to their extremities.
Men are essentially built for physical confrontation and the use of force. Their joints are well suited for throwing objects. A man’s skull is almost always thicker and stronger than a women’s.
Women are better than men in just about every way.
If men had to suffer a period every month they would have found a cure for that by now.
If men had to get pregnant and suffer for nine months then they would have also spent billions to make that easier.
If men had to give birth, that’s it game over, they would have three billion in mass suicides.
Yet, women put up with these biological complications on a regular basis. They get my vote.
I also find women more reasonable, more logical, more compassionate and nicer to look at.
Women are extremely intuitive.
The women I have met, who have made a lasting impression on me, tend to be intuitive.
They tend to disguise it as common-sense, but it’s not. It’s deeper than that.
And I feel that it is because in the society I live, western culture, for centuries women have been forced to develop a craft in both posing as a one person to ease an audience while also trying to find the space to let the other person take the role.
So this leads to a keen observation of circumstances, people, and dynamics.
Which leads them to, by daily application and training, develop this intuition.
In my experience, that is why women usually outcompete men in an equal leveling field.
as per my observation , yes. female students are more responsible than male students that's why their efficiency in grades high than male students. if we talk about gender inequality and others factor. i am following the answer of other colleagues
Mary C R Wilson Well said!
Beemnet Mengesha Kassahun Interesting responses but you might look around the 6th and 7th weeks of gestation. It seems up to this time, the male and female foetuses appear identical. After this time, the connections attributed to intuition in the male, are progressively destroyed. I was somewhat shattered when I discovered this. :-(
I really think that you need to specify your terms. I, for one, think that most humans are reasonably efficient, due to our roughly 6 million years of adapting to our upright hominin niche. Neither sex appears to be more or less capable of learning; and what we learn is almost totally determined by our cultural traditions. The question must be 'located'- more or less efficient at 'what'? For hunter-gatherers, everyone has to be as efficient as possible, because you need to survive on what you get. Small differences, such as the young male big-game hunter who ate less at the kill sight, so he could bring more meat home; or the young female who was the best small-game trapper, led to their being seen as quite desirable mates: so efficiency was threaded into our cultures a long time ago.
In what universe, as males tend to be physically faster, and typically possess greater reaction times,reflexes, endurance, stamina, spacial awareness,faster recovery from trauma and selected infections such as colds and flu,better pain tolerance (contrary to popular belief),and actually usually score a couple of points higher in standard IQ tests, due to having slightly more analytical brains,in most circumstances.
Who implemented technology, education and economies? Voluminously Men.
Who pioneered sciences and maths? Mostly males.
Who established societies and civilizations? Predominantly males.
Who created empires and monarchs. Men.
Who erected coliseums and monuments? Men.
Who designed and engineered most infrastructure and architecture? Mostly males.
Women are incredible beings and are NOT TO BE UNDERMINED OR UNDERESTIMATED. But that being said, the world cannot,and will not just shove every gifted and hardworking male into the backseat just to lie and place women on a pedestal. That would HONESTLY sound like nonsense.
And because both sides of the same coin exis, women typically edge males at empathic and linguistic skills, bear greater working memory of when certain tasks should be performed, process verbal and written tasks with more accuracy,are usually greater at multitasking, outlive their male counterparts by a few years in 70-75% of cases,and have greater immune systems and physical agility, overall and have assisted in pulling integral strings in sciences, technology, arts, education, economics and more.
Also,it has been scientifically extrapolated that an additional X chromosome is not the reason why women tend to live longer in most cases.
And in normal first world countries, not only do boys and girls receive the exact same education,teachers and treatment, and exams at school,it has been concluded that the traditional education system is marginally more conducive to the female brain.
I've just read your long and thought provoking response, Jonathan Hirsch, and I see the male and female gender as complementing each other. Neither could do without the other!
And I'd like to add a slight correction here,as while the XX chromosome isn't the be-all and end-all of female longevity, it certainly augments it.
Jonathan Hirsch
I had known that women generally live longer than men, but had been unaware that it was linked to the second X chromosome. So looked it up and found an interesting article re this being looked into in mice:
Davis, E. J., Lobach, I., & Dubal, D. B. (2019). Female XX sex chromosomes increase survival and extend lifespan in aging mice. Aging Cell, 18(1), e12871.
Article Female XX sex chromosomes increase survival and extend lifes...
Thank you, Jonathan!
Female are definitely intellectual as man. If oppertunities are provided, they can be more efficient than man.
Men have more cells than women but the same number of genes.
Also,heart disease and lung cancer is more common among females in the US for the past few years.
And men recover sooner from ecoli and have lower incidences of autoimmune diseases
And males have more connections within their cerebral hemispheres, whereas females bear more connections between hemispheres
However, more often than not, females have a survival advantage from a development and infection standpoint
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