10 Things Women Do Better Than Men

I am amazed at the number of studies that have found women better than men in various skills. Here is a list of 10 skills where women seem to be doing better than men.



Women drive better than men

Well this reverses a social myth – that women are bad drivers. Carnegie Mellon University researchers found after analyzing a lot of traffic data in 2007 that men are 77% more likely to die in a car accident than women, keeping the miles driven constant. So next time when your husband asks you to hand over the car keys, just give him this article.

Women remember appearances better than men

Some would say, “Why not? Don’t women pay all their attention to
appearances?” Well, say what you may, but only a loser complains about
somebody for being better than him! Terrence Horgan, research fellow in psychology at Ohio State University,
and her co-researchers found in a study that women are more accurate in
describing appearances after seeing people once. The study was
published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Women cooperate better than men

We can see this everywhere, but still if you want a citation, here it
is. A study by Rolf Kuemmerli and other researchers at Edinburgh and
Lausanne universities indicated that women cooperate better than men. In
the research, based on games played by 100 Swiss students, women cooperated with others almost twice as much as men did.

Women eat better than men

This is probably not so obvious, for rarely do we notice gender
differences in eating habits. A survey involving 14000 Americans,
conducted by University of Minnesota, revealed that men are more likely to eat frozen pizza and meat, whereas women are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables.

Women perform better than men in timed tests

So if time is precious, women are better at preserving it than men. A study by Vanderbilt University researchers in 2006 found that women score better in timed intelligence tests
than men. The study, published in the May-June issue of the journal
Intelligence, didn’t find much difference in un-timed tests, which meant
women had a quicker mind.

Women perceive their relationships better than men

Talk about relationships and most men will frown. Now you know why – they know so little about their relationships! A Hebrew University
of Jerusalem study, after surveying 97 couples in the United States,
found that women are more perceptive than men in describing their
relationships. The study, published in ScienceDaily, reported that women
were much more accurate in describing the perception of their partners
than men.

Women communicate better than men

This is now scientifically proven and acknowledged. Louann Brizendine, neuro-psychiatrist at the University
of California at San Francisco, found in a study that women can process
20000 words a day compared to men’s 7000 words (Louann Brizendine,The
Female Brain, Morgan Road Books). This difference, as per Brizendine’s
study, is more biological than social, which starts as early as the
fetal stage.

Women learn better than men

That is why girls get better grades in school on an average than boys in many parts of the world. Dr Simone Kruger of Edge Hill University, UK, found in her research
based on remote learners that women learners were more successful in
sharing ideas and experiences with each other, and hence learn t more
efficiently than men.

Women invest better than men

You don’t believe it, do you? We all know fewer women invest in stocks
than men do, but the few women who invest in shares do better than
their male counterparts. A study by the National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC) for the University of California found that women earn on an average 1.4% more than men in their share portfolios.

Women cope with stress better than men

A study at the University of California, Los Angeles, published in the
July 2000 issue of Psychological Review, found some biological and
behavioral differences in the ways men and women cope with stress. It
found that women tend to seek contact with others and social support
when they are under stress, which is a psychologically much better way
of coping with stress than the “fight-or-flight” approach of men.

Of course, there are other studies which indicate men are better than women in various skills. The point
I want to make is not that women are better than men in everything, but
that men should stop underestimating women after being proven wrong
time and again.