"All A Girl Wants"

from:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mydearvalentine/8187868722/in/photostream/

Gender Differences on Online Ads

              "Men and women also differ in types of online ads that resonate with them:"

from:

http://www.onbile.com/info/gender-differences-in-mobile-phone-use-and-social-media-apps/

Maybe Women Are More Shallow Than We Thought

Women prefer good-looking men to high-earning men.

May 11, 2010 — Restructure!

Women prefer physically attractive men to high-earning men:

When male geeks talk about what (heterosexual) women want in men, they typically assert that women evolved to be attracted to a man’s resources, while men evolved to be attracted to a woman’s physical attractiveness. (Sometimes, this evolutionary psychology argument is used to justify the gender gap in earnings; they argue that men earn more than women because men’s evolutionary fitness depends on earning money, while women’s evolutionary fitness allegedly does not.) Such male IT geeks then complain that their difficulty attracting women must because they are “low status” males who do not make enough money, even when IT is a lucrative industry.

In reality, however, what women and men look for in a partner are pretty much the same. Perhaps those male IT geeks whofalsely believe that women are attracted to “alpha male” jerks should work on their physical appearance and personality.

(Image via onlinedatingmatchmaker.com via Sociological Images.)

from:

http://restructure.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/women-prefer-attractive-men-to-high-status-men/

Men vs Women: Brain Connectivity

This is fascinating.  I wonder why a difference in gender would lead to a consistent difference in brain connectivity (or vice verse).   It certainly also helps to explain why men and women seem to be so different in so many things.  I would like to also see a similar study conducted on homosexual individuals.  Does the difference in connectivity have to do with the biological, physical differences between genders regardless of sexual orientation?  Or is there an emotional and/or psychological component to this?  What do you think?




from:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-hardwired-difference-between-male-and-female-brains-could-explain-why-men-are-better-at-map-reading-8978248.html

Sweet Dreams

from:
http://www.sodahead.com/fun/nite-nitemy-friends/question-4454823/

A More Contemporary Interpretation

Here's an interesting interpretation of various gender continuums by Sam Killermann.  He's apparently even written a book about this.  Perhaps this is the mark of contemporary gender roles.  What do you think?






from:
http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2013/01/a-comprehensive-list-of-lgbtq-term-definitions/

Men vs Women: Childcare

Technically this is about men vs women in households where the woman is the breadwinner.  But in spite of being the breadwinner, it appears that women still tend to do more of the childcare than the men in the family.  It would be interesting to compare this to families in which the male is the breadwinner, where we assume the women do much more of the childcare than the men.  How does it work in your family?  My mother always worked, as did my father.  And certainly my mother did all the childcare.  Although that was a different generation.  Certainly today men are more likely to be involved in the childcare than men of previous generations.  And it seems like you have a lot of dual-earning families these days, much more so than before.  It would be interesting to see how the percentages below would change if you threw in statistics about daycare-type situations.




from:
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/09/breadwinner_wives_when_the_women_make_more_money_who_holds_the_power_.2.html