Caterpillar Cowboy

This is the best article I’ve ever read on the differences between men and women. It’s very long but really worth reading.

Highlights:

1. The distribution in ability is naturally different in men and women. There are more men at the top AND bottom of society. There are more men at the top AND bottom of IQ.
2. Men are genetically predisposed to take more risks than women, which means those who succeed (and become extra rich or powerful) tend to be men. It also means more men are absolute failures.
3. Evolutionarily speaking, wombs are rare but penises are plentiful. In other words, one man can father 100 children but one woman cannot product 100 offspring. Therefore, it is rational for men to take risks which, if they pay off, afford them the opportunity to have lots of children from lots of partners. It is also rational for women to “play it safe” (don’t take potentially fatal risks) and do whatever necessary to attract these men, because then they will create offspring with these successful men.
4. Women prefer intimate one-on-one relationships whereas men prefer broader, shallower networks. Early on in human history, it was necessary for women to be this way, as it led to the creation of healthy offspring (born to fathers who had many partners and never were around).
5. Success in business / politics / markets tend to favor those who take risks and have broad, shallow networks. Men tend to have those qualities, which is why you find men at the top of those fields. What isn’t so obvious is the number of failures in those fields, and how many failures are also men.

(I think psydoctor8 originally posted this, but I can’t find it.)