hi welcome to watchmojo.com i’m your
host Laila I got to talk to
psychologists Susan Pinker about her
book the sexual paradox which reveals
how learning and behavioral gaps between
boys and girls in the classroom are
reversed when they grow up and enter the
workforce do you want to tell us how the
sacrifices that women make in order to
rise through the ranks and earn a lot of
money are not sacrifices for men but
more rewards there’s some women who are
just as keenly competitive as men and
will do anything to get that corner
office and but I would say there are
probably fewer women and there are men
and some women who want who are
ambitious and who want to succeed in
very male-oriented environments often do
have to sacrifice their social networks
or the time that they want to spend with
their families whether this be with
their children or with their parents how
might nature and there there are the
hormones that affect women interfere in
their career ambitions I wouldn’t say
that they interfere i would say that how
they interact more than interfere women
who have small children at home will
feel the desire to spend more time with
them because it’s it’s agreeable and
pleasing and it feels good so it’s not
just an obligation and I talk about that
in the sexual paradox that the hormone
oxytocin which has been called the
elixir of attachment it’s the hormone
that’s involved after when women not
only when women reach out to other
people to assist but it’s very much
secreted during childbirth during sex
during orgasm when women nurse their
babies and when women take care of their
babies and it has an analgesic effect
the painkiller makes women feel pretty
good so it’s not just a question of the
fact that they feel like they should do
it but it feels good just understanding
that men and women are not biologically
equivalent what does that say about the
workplace can we
that it’s male oriented in terms of like
if you have to have an extreme job to be
considered productive or put an 80 to
100 hours of work to be up there is this
more of a male oriented model well I
would say a lot of work places were
designed when there were no women at the
bargaining table so they were designed
when women weren’t there they weren’t
designed for women’s career trajectories
which tend to kind of have a an
up-and-down rhythm to them whereas men
you know for the most part can pursue
their goals without as many distractions
and you know women are more likely to
have kind of a patchwork resume and so I
would say that not only are met some of
these workplace is designed for the male
model but it’s become even more so today
which is a paradox because there are
more women at work today than there used
to be but the workplaces have become
more extreme because the competition has
become more extreme what can you tell us
about the different approaches to
competitions between the two sexes when
experiments are done where we compare
boys and girls for example in running
races we find that when boys are paired
against an opponent they run faster when
is when girls are paired against an
opponent they run slower so competition
Spurs boys on to perform better and
competition has the opposite effect on
most women once again we’re talking
about averages and I found what was
interesting about that study is that and
the girls did best when they ran on the
on their own they performed the best
when they ran on their own and when they
were paired against a boy who was of
equal competence could run just as fast
they ran a bit slower but when they
paired against another girl they ran the
slowest of all
you
host Laila I got to talk to
psychologists Susan Pinker about her
book the sexual paradox which reveals
how learning and behavioral gaps between
boys and girls in the classroom are
reversed when they grow up and enter the
workforce do you want to tell us how the
sacrifices that women make in order to
rise through the ranks and earn a lot of
money are not sacrifices for men but
more rewards there’s some women who are
just as keenly competitive as men and
will do anything to get that corner
office and but I would say there are
probably fewer women and there are men
and some women who want who are
ambitious and who want to succeed in
very male-oriented environments often do
have to sacrifice their social networks
or the time that they want to spend with
their families whether this be with
their children or with their parents how
might nature and there there are the
hormones that affect women interfere in
their career ambitions I wouldn’t say
that they interfere i would say that how
they interact more than interfere women
who have small children at home will
feel the desire to spend more time with
them because it’s it’s agreeable and
pleasing and it feels good so it’s not
just an obligation and I talk about that
in the sexual paradox that the hormone
oxytocin which has been called the
elixir of attachment it’s the hormone
that’s involved after when women not
only when women reach out to other
people to assist but it’s very much
secreted during childbirth during sex
during orgasm when women nurse their
babies and when women take care of their
babies and it has an analgesic effect
the painkiller makes women feel pretty
good so it’s not just a question of the
fact that they feel like they should do
it but it feels good just understanding
that men and women are not biologically
equivalent what does that say about the
workplace can we
that it’s male oriented in terms of like
if you have to have an extreme job to be
considered productive or put an 80 to
100 hours of work to be up there is this
more of a male oriented model well I
would say a lot of work places were
designed when there were no women at the
bargaining table so they were designed
when women weren’t there they weren’t
designed for women’s career trajectories
which tend to kind of have a an
up-and-down rhythm to them whereas men
you know for the most part can pursue
their goals without as many distractions
and you know women are more likely to
have kind of a patchwork resume and so I
would say that not only are met some of
these workplace is designed for the male
model but it’s become even more so today
which is a paradox because there are
more women at work today than there used
to be but the workplaces have become
more extreme because the competition has
become more extreme what can you tell us
about the different approaches to
competitions between the two sexes when
experiments are done where we compare
boys and girls for example in running
races we find that when boys are paired
against an opponent they run faster when
is when girls are paired against an
opponent they run slower so competition
Spurs boys on to perform better and
competition has the opposite effect on
most women once again we’re talking
about averages and I found what was
interesting about that study is that and
the girls did best when they ran on the
on their own they performed the best
when they ran on their own and when they
were paired against a boy who was of
equal competence could run just as fast
they ran a bit slower but when they
paired against another girl they ran the
slowest of all
you
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