> If the stereotype is right, women are "multitaskers."
> This may be related to societal incentives to stick to
> jobs related to housewifery/childcare, or maybe
> there's some sort of genetic or hormonal component
> (though I doubt it). * * * [M]en are more likely
> likely to be single-minded (perhaps because they're
> so often exempted from househusbandry/childcare
> tasks), they can learn to do one task . . . really well.
> Put another way . . . Einstein wasn't pushed to really
> do anything with his life, having only an easy job. This
> allowed him to dream (to do gedanken experiments)
> and to figure out some basic questions in physics. If
> he'd had to take care of kids, on the other hand, ...
. . . he might have been a "she" and might have been those housefraus with kids, Rosalyn Yallow, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or . . . .