Jul/090
Slaves hormones. That’s why women were less successful than men
The tendency of women to realize less than men in the workplace is, according to the scholar Susan Pinker, not only socially but also biologically determined. Years of struggle for the conquest of gender equality and the empowerment of women were therefore useless? In fact, that since the decree, where a woman can dare to be a biological predisposition against which it cannot be anything. In the book “The Sexual Paradox, extreme men, gifted woman and the real gender gap” American psychologist, suggests that women, although equally motivated and capable, sometimes even more than men (packing with him this time there by a woman!) not manage to reach the heights of success due to low production of testosterone in the face of an abundant secretion of oxytocin, a hormone involved in the mechanisms of orgasm and motherhood.
In particular, according to Pinker, women are more likely, by virtue of their hormonal characteristics, to choose jobs that have a social and why more communication and empathic to have a greater range of interpersonal relationships and interests that go beyond the work. Would always be the oxytocin to carry the working woman to feel less satisfied with their work unless forced to do it is to spend less time with their children or limit their social life. The hormones in practice lead women to make career choices and life that limit their ability to “reach the summit.”
The same Pinker also argues that with motherhood, along with the hormonal changes that lead women to prefer a career to their children, but also improves the ability to manage these problems. The desirable social change for women workers will help to make life a little easier for those seeking to reconcile work and family, but will not change things. The role of social and cultural factors that affect unquestionably the difficulties that many women, not only mothers, face in the workplace, it seems not to have much importance, would be crucial as the action of hormones that already begins in the womb and continues for life.
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