原文: 10 Things Women Do Better Than Men

1. Women drive better than men.

   Well this reverses a social myth - that women are bad drivers. Carnegie Mellon University researchers found after analyzing a lot of traffic data in 2007 that men are 77% more likely to die in a car accident than women, keeping the miles driven constant. So next time when your husband asks you to hand over the car keys, just give him this article.

2. Women remember appearances better than men.

   Some would say, “Why not? Don't women pay all their attention to appearances?” Well, say what you may, but only a loser complains about somebody for being better than him! Terrence Horgan, research fellow in psychology at Ohio State University, and her co-researchers found in a study that women are more accurate in describing appearances after seeing people once. The study was published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

3. Women cooperate better than men.

   We can see this everywhere, but still if you want a citation, here it is. A study by Rolf Kuemmerli and other researchers at Edinburgh and Lausanne universities indicated that women cooperate better than men. In the research, based on games played by 100 Swiss students, women cooperated with others almost twice as much as men did.

4. Women eat better than men.

    This is probably not so obvious, for rarely do we notice gender differences in eating habits. A survey involving 14000 Americans, conducted by University of Minnesota, revealed that men are more likely to eat frozen pizza and meat, whereas women are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables.

5. Women perform better than men in timed tests.

    So if time is precious, women are better at preserving it than men. A study by Vanderbilt University researchers in 2006 found that women score better in timed intelligence tests than men. The study, published in the May-June issue of the journal Intelligence, didn't find much difference in un-timed tests, which meant women had a quicker mind.

6. Women perceive their relationships better than men.

   Talk about relationships and most men will frown. Now you know why - they know so little about their relationships! A Hebrew University of Jerusalem study, after surveying 97 couples in the United States, 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.

7. Women communicate better than men.

   This is now scientifically proven and acknowledged. Louann Brizendine, neuro-pyschiatrist at the University of California at San Francisco, found in a study that women can process 20000 words a day compared to men's 7000 words (Louann Brizendine,The Female Brain, Morgan Road Books). This difference, as per Brizendine's study, is more biological than social, which starts as early as the fetal stage.

8. Women learn better than men.

   That is why girls get better grades in school on an average than boys in many parts of the world. Dr Simone Kruger of Edge Hill University, UK, found in her research based on remote learners that women learners were more successful in sharing ideas and experiences with each other, and hence learnt more efficiently than men.

9. Women invest better than men.

    You don't believe it, do you? We all know fewer women invest in stocks than men do, but the few women who invest in shares do better than their male counterparts. A study by the National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC) for the University of California found that women earn on an average 1.4% more than men in their share portfolios.

10. Women cope with stress better than men.

    A study at the University of California, Los Angeles, published in the July 2000 issue of Psychological Review, found some biological and behavioral differences in the ways men and women cope with stress. It found that women tend to seek contact with others and social support when they are under stress, which is a psychologically much better way of coping with stress than the “fight-or-flight” approach of men.

Of course, there are other studies which indicate men are better than women in various skills. The point I want to make is not that women are better than men in everything, but that men should stop underestimating women after being proven wrong time and again.

译文: 10件女人比男人做得更好的事

1.   女人驾驶技术比男人高

      这扭转了一个全社会的误区—女人不擅长驾驶。卡内基·梅隆大学的研究员发现在分析了许多2007年的交通事故数据之后发现男性在交通事故中丧生的几率比女性高出77%。所以下次当你的丈夫让你把汽车钥匙交出来时，只要给他看看这篇文章。

2.   女人记忆外表的能力比男人强

      有些人会说，为什么不呢？女人把她们所有的精力都用在记忆外表上。也许你说得是对的，但是只有输家才会抱怨对手比自己强。特伦斯·霍根，一位俄亥俄州立大学的心理学研究人员和他的同事们在一项研究中发现在见过一面之后，女人能够比男人更精确地描述人们的相貌。这项研究在期刊《个性与社会心理》上发表了。

3.   女人比男人更善于合作

      这一点生活中到处都可以印证，但是如果你仍然需要印证，这里有Rolf Kuermmerli和他的研究人员在爱丁堡和洛桑大学指出女人比男人更善于合作。在研究中，根据100个瑞士学生所作的实验，女人和他人合作的次数几乎是男人的两倍。

4.   女人比男人更会吃

      这一点并不那么明显，因为在饮食习惯上我们似乎看不到什么性别差异。在明尼苏达大学组织的对14000名美国人所进行的调查研究表明男人比女人更容易吃冰冻匹萨和肉类，然而女人更倾向于多吃水果和蔬菜。

5.   女人在限时的活动中比男人表现得更好

      如果时间很宝贵，那么女人比男人更擅长把握它。一项范德毕特大学研究人员在2006年组织的调查表明在限时的智力测试中女人比男人表现得更好。这项研究刊登在5、6月号的期刊《智力》上，在不限时的测试中没有发现明显的差别，这一点意味着女人比男人更聪明。

6.   女人能更好地领悟彼此的关系

      谈到关系大多数男人都要皱眉了。现在你知道为什么了—他们对自己和伴侣的关系知之甚少！以色列希伯来大学的一项研究显示，在调查了美国97对夫妇之后，发现女人在描述和对方的关系时领悟力更强。发表在《科学日报》上的这项研究表明女人描述自己的感悟比男人更精确。

7.   女人比男人更善于沟通

      这一点已被科学验证和承认。在圣弗朗西斯科的加利福尼亚大学的神经精神病学家Louann Brizendine在一项研究中发现女人能够一天处理20000个单词，而男人只能处理7000个。这一区别，在Brizendine的研究中显示是生物性的而非社会性的，从婴儿时期就开始了。

8.   女人比男人更善于学习

      这就是为什么在世界上的许多地方学校里女人的平均成绩比男人高。英国边山大学的西蒙·克鲁格博士在她的研究中发现，在拓展学习中女性学习者在互相交换意见和经验发面更出色，因此她们比男人学习得更有效率。

9.   女人比男人更善于投资

      你不相信这一点对吗？我们都知道在证券市场投资的女性比男性少，但是那些在证券市场上投资的少数者比男性投资者们做得更好。全国投资者协会（NAIC）为加利福尼亚大学所做的一项研究发现女人在证券投资上的收益比男人平均高出1.4%。

10.   女人比男人更善于应对压力

      洛杉矶的加利福尼亚大学的一项发表于2000年7月号的《心理考察》的研究发现，男人和女人处理压力的方式有着生物学上和行为上的不同。这项研究还发现女人在受到压力时更倾向于寻求交流和来自他人的支持，比起男性激进的硬碰硬的打压法，这在心理学上是一种更好的处理压力的方式。 
      当然,还有许多其它的研究表明男性在许多技能上比女性出色。我想说的不是女性在任何方面都比男性出色，而是男人应该停止低估女人，这一点一次又一次地被证明是错误的。