The historical roots of the male-female relationship are hundreds of thousands of years old and are imbedded in culturally enforced power systems that have developed largely in response to biological realities. From a biological perspective, a woman must be concerned with the well-being of her offspring and, therefore, looks for established males that can provide and protect. A man is looking for healthy young bodies to mate with that will ensure his genes turn up in the next generation. Better and Good Relationships Great. This explains why women are able to connect with lots of people at once.
Men focus and are unable to pay attention to multiple situations at one time.
Well, that's because you are. Men's thinking tends to be very linear whereas women can think and feel in broad and flexible ways. Men have learned throughout their biological history to be really focused and can be startled and feel violated by interruption. At the same time, when a woman gets interrupted, she can stop what she is doing and then go right back to it. Research also indicates that men and women process emotional situations at different rates, and thus have vastly different communication styles.