Freud bases them on his empirical observations. The feminine type is reactive, strategic, controlled, weak, sees the potential for power in other. One of the big questions is whether our sexual roles are learned, a product of environment, in bred, or a combination of all of these. Deborah Tannen, a Georgetown U. linguistic professor says we don't talk alike at all. Women's communication may have anatomical roots.
Women are more spiritual than men.
Men require more nurturing during career development, need support. Thus, female communication is different for biological reasons as well as child rearing, and tribal rules. The ego-function as a determinant of genre. Strategies of identification. Suffering and oppression give us a common bond.