ARE WOMEN DIFFERENT FROM MEN?

WHO HAS A MORE SOPHISTICATED SENSE OF HUMOUR?

Women have a classier sense of humor than men. The researchers gave men and women humorous cartoons to look at while having their brains monitored with an MRI. Men showed a lot less activity in their brains than women. Men expected the cartons to be funny and started laughing sooner without much thought. Women evaluated the cartoons with much more thought; their brains showed that they experienced more delight with each cartoon. 

WHO'S FASTER?

Although men are faster than women, the time difference between men’s and women’s speed in the 100-meter run has been shrinking. If the time difference continues to shrink as it has been throughout the 1900s, by 2156, women will be faster than men, at least in the 100-meter run.

    WHO HARBORS MORE BACTERIA?

Each person carried an average of about 150 species of bacteria on their hands. However,women carried twice the number of bacteria species than men did, even though women wash their hands more often and are more sanitary. Scientists do not know the reason for the difference.

WHO LOVES THE MIRROR MORE?

A woman spends an average of 2 years of her life time looking at herself in the mirror; a man spends 6 months.However, men look at a reflection of themselves as often as womnen do; it is just that women take longer looks due to more necessary maintenance a woman has to do in front of a mirror.

WHO IS MORE EMPATHETIC?

Women are much more empathetic than men. Neuroscientists monitored on an MRI scan 16 women’s brain activities while the women received electric shocks. Their brains showed activities in both emotional and sensory regions. Later neuroscientists shocked the women’s romantic partners while the women watched. The women showed the same activities in their emotional region of the brain as when the women themselves were getting shocked, though no activity appeared in their sensory region.

WHO'S THE BOSS AT HOME?

A team of researchers studied the relationship of 72 couples and found that women, having stronger opinions regarding their home and family, tend to control household matters (housework, family times, family schedules, etc.). And husbands were the happiest if they did not disagree with these decisions regarding household matters. Husbands who had opinions about these issues were more likely to be involved in spousal arguments.

WHO DEALS WITH STRESS MORE EFFECTIVELY?

Women are generally more open to expressing their emotions and communicating with others to resolve various stressful situations whereas men seem to prefer to deal with things on their own.
Men have been known to take a 'fight or flight' approach to dealing with stress. Women, however, have been shown in studies to 'tend-and-befriend',that is,they have larger social support networks which seem to help with relieving stress and aid in the confrontation of the stress source.