Is There a Difference Between Boys and Girls?

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There is a huge advantage to having higher socioeconomic status. Boys have never done well in school and they've never liked it, so unpleasant that there's girls there now too competing with these boys. I really do think that the next two to five years will be the two main topics that will be discussed will be the mating crisis. Men are more likely to survive a heart attack just because most of the research on heart attacks has included men. The types that want to talk about suicide as a disease, if you want to talk About These deaths of despair, they're overwhelmingly male.

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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