Answers below were obtained by reviewing research and through books. Infant boys are typically more advanced than infant girls with respect to their motor development. In general, girls are more likely than boys to prefer an occupation that is considered nontraditional for their gender. Research conducted during the past 10 years shows that boys and girls are now almost equally represented in children's books, and children rarely act in gender-stereotyped ways in these books. In a group of people with presumably similar abilities, men are more likely to emerge as leaders.
Women are consistently more responsive to infants than men are.
Although women earn less than men, the discrepency can be explained by different occupations, different amounts of work experience, and different numbers of hours worked each week. Research on married couples in the U.S. and Canada shows that women perform about two-thirds of the household chores. Children of employed women have normal intellectual development, but they have substantially more social and emotional problems, compared to children whose mothers do not. Because of their heavy responsibilities, employed women are more likely than nonemplyed women to experience problems with their physical and psychological health.