...It's time for a grown-up conversation about sex. No, not that one. The other one, about the minds of men and women. Converging lines of empirical evidence—from developmental neuroscience, medical genetics, evolutionary biology, cross-cultural psychology, and new studies of transsexuality—along with our evolutionary heritage, all point to the same conclusion: There are psychological differences between men and women. And they affect matters as trivial as sensitivity to smelly socks and as significant as susceptibility to disorders such as depression and autism. ...
...Fact: American women are 15 percent less likely to reach a managerial position in the workplace than are men—but in Sweden women are 48 percent less likely, in Norway 52 percent, in Finland 56 percent, and in Denmark 63 percent.
Whatever the differences in men's and women's psyches—empathy, jealousy, cognitive abilities, mate preferences—many theories in psychology assume that they result primarily from direct gender socialization by parents, media, and societal institutions. As a result, it is often expected that sex differences will be smaller in cultures with higher levels of gender-related egalitarianism, as in Scandinavia, where socialization and roles are more balanced between men and women and sociopolitical gender equity prevails.
Surprisingly, several large cross-cultural studies have found this is not at all the case. Whether scientists measure Big Five personality traits, such as neuroticism; Dark Triad traits, such as psychopathy; or self-esteem, subjective well-being, or depression, empirical evidence shows that most sex differences are conspicuously larger in cultures with more egalitarian gender roles—as in Scandinavia.
The same holds true for cognitive attributes, including mental rotation and location ability, objectively measured on tests, as well as for physical traits such as height and blood pressure (both greater in men). And among such differences as preferring physically attractive mates, some of the largest psychological variances of all occur among the most progressive people: Scandinavians. The phenomenon is called the gender equality paradox.
Culture matters in explaining psychological sex differences, but not in the way most people think. It's not harsher gender socialization by parents and media, stringent societal gender roles, or institutional sociopolitical forces that widen the differences between men and women in the most progressive nations in the world. When you treat everyone the same, as in the Nordic countries, it's only genetic predispositions that produce the most observable individual differences. Extremes of sexual freedom beget larger psychological sex differences. Or as explained by Israeli psychologists Shalom Schwartz and Tammy Rubel-Lifshitz, it may be that having fewer gendered restrictions in a culture allows "both sexes to pursue more freely the values they inherently care about more.
Is equality even possible where there are double standards?
Men are from Mars and women are from Venus. And that’s the way it is.
This would not have been news as recently as the 1960’s. It is refreshing that after a relatively brief side trip into cultural insanity, we are so soon discovering the lunacy of such ideas and returning to sanity.
Someone needs to tell this to all those dyke, lesbos running diversity departments in corporate America.
Courageous for that publication. Pop psychology has long catered to people who like shallow thinking, and who easily fall prey to popular fads. Surprising that they would actually publish this. The feminazis will be reading it after they come back from the Equinox worship in Stonehenge, and will be condemning it.
The article does say that the differences are inherent, and are genetic. This destroys the fake/phoney/fraud construct of the militant left. I predict that the author is trashed.
What I would like to see in print, is an article warning people and their doctors that knowledge of the person’s sex IS important for diagnosis and treatment, and that LYING, and claiming to be a sex other than one’s real one, can lead to improper diagnosis and/or treatment. So, a male who has some things lopped off and who claims to be a female had damned well better tell his doctor about his fantasy! The doctor IS NOT responsible for the outcome when the patient lies about his sex.
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“Egalitarian” may be a good label for the social-laws in Scandinavia, as part of the politics and governance of their countries. But culture writ large is more than mere politics or what mere politics demands and can control. In spite of “egalitarian” politics, the broader culture may less “egalitarian” than the politics. That may be the Scandinavian paradox and it may not be a paradox of mere “egalitarian” politics at all.
True equality of the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve only exists in the eyes of God.
Very good article. There exists big biological diversity (genetic) in humans. HBD
Applicable to race and ethnicity as well as sex.
Lol. It was these very charlatans that started the damm “men and women are the same” BS in the first place. Psychologists are scam artists. And they know it.
Anyone here seen the doc movie “ The Red Pill?” Very interesting
Liberal dogma states that if there are any differences at all in social or financial outcomes between groups of people defined by sex, race, or any other identifier, these differences must necessarily be the outcome of “discrimination and bigotry.” The fact that even in the most fanatically egalitarian societies in the world you get differences in outcomes proves that human nature and not institutional discrimination explain social and economic outcomes. Unfortunately, facts are of secondary interest to liberal ideologues.
But it's racist to have an opinion that IQ has any genetic component.