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Why the hand wringing over women at work?

"We made a lot of progress, but we still have a long way to go." How many times do we have to read that in the Daily Herald? Can't you people come up with a better cliché?

I refer here to your editorial complaining about the troubles women face in the workplace. Not enough of them are in managerial and executive positions, you say. Then, you cite a study which claims that women receive more complaints about personality issues than technical problems in their performance reviews.

All this hand-wringing and crying is based on a myth, an illusion, passing as the latest science, that women and men are the same, that women are just smaller versions of men with a few trivial modifications in anatomy. This view, this dogma, is nonsense.

In the past few decades the science of sex differences has accumulated a tremendous amount of information, which the public is not likely to see because the of Nineteenth Century bigotries of modern educators, journalists and politicians.

Men and women profoundly differ in their genetics and, consequently, in their biopsychology. That means they will behave differently in the workplace.

The steroid hormone testosterone, for example, strongly influences male behavior, especially, in aggressive and sexual behavior. Men tend to dominate in corporate hierarchies because that is the way they are built - competitive and aggressive. Most women shy away from competition. That is why the statistics will show a gap in leadership and pay between men and women.

George Kocan

Warrenville