The Power of Social Media

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"I get surprised when people think there are no sex differences, and I'm like, have you ever been to a preschool? And this is pretty early in life," she says. "There's nothing stronger than peers as socializers." Males want it public, they want it conspicuous, and then they want it to be clear who's a winner and who's the loser,. In contrast, females, I find, are much, much more solitary in their competition., but it doesn't mean they're not competing.

Joyce Benenson is a lecturer of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University whose research focuses on human social structures and sex differences in competition and cooperation.

We're often told that men are more competitive, more status-driven and more ruthless with rivals for potential mates. In reality doesn't seem to be true, the difference is that women's competition takes a more subtle, cynical and sophisticated route to drive away their competitors.

Expect to learn how women compete for status, why women exclude more than men, why women who promote an egalitarian world are less charitable than you might think, how you can interfere with a rivals' relationship without getting caught, the usefulness of gossip as an enforcement mechanism and much more...

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