People who consider themselves to be female are known to score more highly on the empathy quotient self-reporting system than males. Whether this is because they are more empathetic or it down to some other social phenomenon based on gender identities is not known, however. Certainly, in some other ways of modelling how empathetic, or otherwise, people are, males come out with higher average scores than females. That said, children tend to score more highly than adults regardless of their gender. As such, any differences in empathy according to an adult's gender status may be more down to cultural issues than which sex they were born as.
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