Seriously, no one wants to hear the men are from mars and women are from venus (or whatever it was) trope any more. It was never a very good analogy anyway.

Dating book authors and policymakers alike often claim that scientific research proves men and women are vastly different. But a team of researchers analyzed data from thousands of people across many different studies, and found that lots of traits we tend to think of as deeply gendered really aren’t.

Study authors Bobbi Carothers and Harry Reis used both their own questionnaires and research by others to look at the characteristics of 13,301 men and women. Specifically, they wanted to find out whether traits like assertiveness broke down neatly by gender or were more evenly distributed, with some men and some women reporting high levels of assertiveness. Other traits they looked at included physical strength, caring for others, and being comfortable with casual sex.

Related:

• Bringing Mars/Venus Theories About Men And Women Down To Earth (medicalnewstoday.com)
• Genders Not So Different? (news.discovery.com)
• Mars vs. Venus: Men and women are not worlds apart, scientists claim (theprovince.com)
• Men and Women ‘both from planet Earth’ (telegraph.co.uk)
• Most psychological attributes 'fail to fit specific gender’ (metro.co.uk)
• Study debunks notion that men and women are psychologically distinct (rawstory.com)
• Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus? Actually we’re on the same planet! (thisismoney.co.uk)