Women should not allowed to hold offices of power due to PMS

Before any professional finishes this study with the results you invented, you cannot win the argument that PMS is a mental disorder, especially since, so far, you have produced not a single professional source or opinion on PMS/PMDD except for an uncited list of symptoms. Because I hold that PMS is misdiagnosed woman-specific MDD, I do not seek to trivialize the negative effects of MDD. However, as I cited before, up to 98% of women do not suffer from MDD. It would be highly irrational and an act of great discrimination to keep 100% of women out of offices of power because 2% of women have MDD. Plenty of men suffer from MDD as well. My opponent rather irrelevantly provides a lengthy list of peculiar and occasionally disturbingly unconstitutional laws, none of which are acts passed by Congress, in fact all of which are state-specific and not national. My opponent also fails to prove, despite repeated demands on my part, how PMS or PMDD are in any way, shape or form comparable to schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Statistics pertaining to victims of biological brain damage and hallucinations/delusions should never be made analogous to people suffering from emotional anxiety and irritability. Even though upwards of 80% of women have PMS/PMDD, statistics show that women are far better biologically equipped to cope with stress than men, leading biologists to speculate that the stereotypical stressed-out woman may be a culturally induced phenomenon without biological support. Women are so much better, in fact, at coping with stress that scientists are considering using female hormones to create pills or injections that men can take to help them calm down :)"We have examined the molecular mechanism underlying gender-specific effects of stress," the study's senior author Zhen Yan, PhD, a professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University at Buffalo, said in a press release. "Previous studies have found that females are more resilient to chronic stress and now our research has found the reason why. " The researchers exposed female rats to one week of physical restraint stress, and found that the rat's ability to remember and recognize objects that they had been shown previously was completely unimpaired. But male rats exposed to the same level of stress did show impairment in their short-term memory. This memory impairment, the study's authors noted, represents a disturbance in signaling capacities of the glutamate receptor in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, the region that governs abstract thinking, behavior regulation, emotion, working memory, and other high-level cognitive functions. "If we could find compounds similar to estrogen that could be administered without causing hormonal side effects," Yan said in the press release, "they could prove to be a very effective treatment for stress-related problems in males. ". http://www.huffingtonpost.com...;Whether or not this is a result of nature or nurture, women are also slightly better negotiators. When it came to negotiating for a lower price, many shops were unwilling to budge. However, when they did, it was more likely to happen for women than men. In fact, 35 percent of women were able to get their requested price met, compared to 25 percent of men. “It’s kind of an ironic twist,” says Zettelmeyer, the Nancy L. Ertle Professor of Marketing. “The same kind of cultural expectations that cause repair shops to overcharge women are probably also responsible for showing preference toward women in negotiations. ”. http://www.fi-magazine.com...Women also outperform men in learning environments – such as school:The study shows that gender disparities in grades start early and uniformly favor girls. In every subject area, boys’ grades are lower than where their test scores would predict, according to the researchers. They attribute this to what they call non-cognitive skills, or “how well each child was engaged in the classroom, how often the child externalized or internalized problems, how often the child lost control and how well the child developed interpersonal skills. ” . http://psychcentral.com...Women also used to lag behind on IQ tests, but have now taken the lead – possibly because education opportunities are becoming more equal. . http://www.telegraph.co.uk.... Repeated studies have also shown that women are superior investors. Amazon book: “Warren Buffet Invests Like a Girl: And Why You Should, Too. ” . http://www.amazon.com... Additionally, men hold onto their losers a lot longer than women. They’re sure the stock will come roaring back — even as it sinks. Academics call it confirmation bias; investment advisers call it boneheaded. “Women are more loss averse than men, more emotionally unattached and are far quicker to unload losers. Whereas men with their bravado, they don’t want to admit they’re wrong,” says Anthony Zalesky, a certified financial planner who advises individual investors and small businesses. Bad financial decisions often can be traced back to unwarranted optimism, or the “positivity illusion” that things are going to turn out just right. On paper it sounds good — better to be hopeful right? Not so fast. This tendency clouds critical thinking. . http://articles.washingtonpost.com... The study, conducted by consulting firm Rothstein Kass, found that hedge funds led by women, who are the minority in the hedge fund industry, far outperformed the global hedge fund index in 2012. A spokesperson for the study said the results came as no surprise, as research has shown women investors overall are more risk-averse than men, making them potentially "better able to escape market downturns and volatility. " The study suggests that female hedge fund managers may be better at managing risk and less likely to try to time the market. Women "trade less and their investments perform better, that they are more realistic, that they are more consistent investors, and that they tend to engage in more thorough research and ignore peer pressure," according to Lofton. . http://www.huffingtonpost.com... Women are at least slightly, if not significantly, superior to men in several aspects crucial for performing well in offices of power, including but not limited to IQ, investment strategies and coping with stress. It would be an enormous loss for the workplace to exclude women from positions of power. Neither PMS nor PMDD are in any way comparable to schizophrenia. They are restricted to "emotional tension", considered "severe" in only 2-5% of cases. Women have a lot of excellent faculties to bring to the table – just like men do. Even if a reader were persuaded by Pro to believe PMS/PMDD are comparable to schizophrenia, banning any group or individual from offices of power due to disability is illegal and discriminatory. Banning women from offices of power due to an illness which is not woman-specific is discrimination. Vote Con. Thank you :)