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Mars is Moving Away from Venus

By Jay Slupesky
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Some fascinating new research is out on the topic of personality differences between men and women. 

As just about everyone knows, men tend to be more reckless, assertive, competitive and unemotional, while women are more emotional, nuturing, cautious, and coopertive. Some people think these differences are innate, while others think they are the result of the way children are raised in our society.

The really interesting and surprising result of the research is that the personality differences between men and women are actually increasing.  You would think that as women move closer to equality with men, have their own careers, etc., the differences would tend to diminish.  One theory that has been put forward to explain this phenomenon is that in modern societies, as external barriers between the sexes diminish, some long-dormant internal differences are reviving.

Finally, it appears that most of the increasing differences in personality are due to changes in men.  In other words, men are becoming more competitive, assertive, etc. in our society!  This doesn’t sound like a good thing.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 at 9:52 pm and is filed under Marriage Dynamics.

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