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Even as many work to minimize gender differences, some striking evidence shows that business and other organizations can leverage those differences to boost their effectiveness. This trend helps explain why many companies tap women for leadership positions.

Many studies document how many women naturally have strengths that can make them better leaders than many men. Studies have long suggested the natural assertiveness of women help them do more and to persuade others to follow them. Read more

A loving compassionate touch or word can mean all the difference when someone is going through a stressful event. Child birth, not only a joyous and long anticipated occasion, stresses the body as a women pushes forth new life and overwhelms the mind with various emotions.

For some fortunate women, midwives and female obstetricians are capable of meeting these challenges with wisdom and techniques addressing their emotional and physical demands. In addition, an empathetic ear and possibly a shared experience heighten the importance of their presence. As women Read more

More and more, as women are working outside of the home, female teachers have become important role models for our children. Especially during the pre-K through fifth grades, roughly ages 3-10, female teachers impress much more on the students in their classroom than lesson plans.

During these formative years, children are learning how they will process the information that they receive. Whether parents, teachers, books, television, electronic games and many other sources are conveying messages to youngsters, the process of listening and properly interpreting the information is Read more

Medical laboratories were dominated by men in the past. This is not the case in the modern ear. It has not been the case for decades. When someone walks into a medical lab today, they will find out that most of the people working in the lab are women. There may be one or two men doing the work of a phlebotomist or a laboratory technician, but these are the exceptions rather than the rule.

The work has not changed, but female scientists have been on Read more