To put it bluntly, men are dumber. They're wired for task-to-task thinking, and their purposes are heavily motivated by challenges. Women, by contrast, are wir

To put it bluntly, men are dumber. They're wired for task-to-task thinking, and their purposes are heavily motivated by challenges. Women, by contrast, are wired for safety, which is a far more holistic approach to purpose because they consider connections men wouldn't even _consider_. The downside of being smarter, though, is more unease about things you see that may present as a risk. It keeps females away from the bottom of the performance bell curve (men rank lowest in most metrics), but also from the top (men rank highest as well). All of it is reprogrammable by operant conditioning (a large part of it often happening within marriage), but those are the biological primitives.