10 Things Women Do Better Than Men

1. Women have more and better relationships and understand their relationships better than men. A Hebrew University of Jerusalem study surveyed 97 couples in the United States and found that women are more perceptive than men in describing their relationships. The study, published in ScienceDaily, reported that women were much more accurate in describing the perception of their partners than men were.

2. Women cooperate better than men. A study involving games played by students revealed this fact. Rolf Kuemmerli and other researchers at Edinburgh and Lausanne Universities showed that women cooperate better than men. In the research, women cooperated with others almost twice as much as men did.

3. Women have a quicker mind than men. A study by Vanderbilt University researchers in 2006 found that women score better in timed intelligence tests than men score. The study, published in the May-June issue of the journal Intelligence, did not find a major difference in untimed tests, which meant women had a quicker mind.

4. Women communicate better than men. Louann Brizendine, a neuro-pyschiatrist at the UC-San Francisco, found in a study that women can process 20,000 words a day compared to men's 7,000 words (Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain, Morgan Road Books). This difference, according to Brizendine's study, is more biological than social, which starts as early as the fetal stage.

5. Women cope with stress better than men. A study at UCLA (July 2000 issue of Psychological Review), found biological and behavioral differences in the ways men and women cope with stress. It found that women tend to seek contact with others and seek social support when they are under stress, which is psychologically a much better way of coping with stress than the independent approach of men. A Mind survey of 2,000 people revealed that women are far more likely than men to talk through their problems. Fifty-three percent of women talk to their friends about their stressors, as opposed to 29 percent of men.

6. Women are better managers. Many experts believe that women make better bosses because they are better listeners, friends, problem solvers, and multitaskers than men. In a New York Daily News article, management expert Jay Forte said, "It's a very service-oriented economy [currently], so you need employees to be motivated. Women are better connectors than men and more astute about knowing how to activate passion in their employees."

7. Women keep employment better than men during recessions. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 80 percent of those who have lost their jobs since December 2007 have been male. This could be because male-dominated fields have been hit the hardest, like manufacturing and finance. Perhaps more men should consider becoming nurses and educators.

8. Women graduate from college more than men. Female enrollment in colleges is higher than male enrollment. In addition, the Department of Education's statistics reveal that men are also less likely than women to graduate and get their bachelor's degrees. Men are also more likely to take longer than five years to complete their degree.

9. Women have stronger immune systems. Women have a secret weapon: estrogen. A study done by McGill University indicated that estrogen gives women an edge when it comes to fighting off infections. That's because estrogen confronts a certain enzyme that often hinders the body's first line of defense against bacteria and viruses.

10. Women live longer than men. In general, according the CIA World Factbook, women continue to live on average about 5 years longer than men. Women in the USA live on average about 81 years, while men live on average about 75.5 years. Among the world's population of those who are over 100 years old, 85 percent are women, according to the New England Centenarian Study.