Baumeister on Gender Differences and Culture

Roy Baumeister of Florida State University and the author of Is There Anything Good About Men talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the differences between men and women in cultural and economic areas. Baumeister argues that men aren't superior to women nor are women superior to men. Rather there are some things men are better at while women excel at a different set of tasks and that these tradeoffs are a product of evolution and cultural pressure. He argues that evolutionary pressure has created different distributions of talent for men and women in a wide variety of areas. He argues that other differences in outcomes are not due to innate ability differences but rather come from different tastes or preferences.

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Baumeister on Gender Differences and Culture is an episode from EconTalk Archives, 2011 by Library of Economics and Liberty.

This episode is 01:16:35 long.

This episode was published on Nov 14, 2011.

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