En route to the parking lot this evening, I was delightedly watching some good-looking and athletic young women running around the campus, with gold sunshine flicking on their hairs.I always enjoy observing young women down to details. They are glorious “gifts from God” (Zhengning Yang, 2004).

Every man, including experienced old man at age of 80s, succumbs to the seduction of young woman’s innocent look and gorgeous body, although the submission is more likely originated from his own lust.Beside physical elements, however, no man has much confidence in what women want. In fact, every married man can testify how clueless he feels about what his wife thinks. Although we can transplant human hearts for more than twenty years, woman’s heart remains impenetrable.It is so unfortunate.

The good news is that women are less competent than men in modern world.That is, they are somewhat dependent on men.The type of job women outperform men is about taking care of family, or any tasks requiring caring and attending details such as secretary and school teacher (let’s forget about prostitution for moral reasons).People (both men and women) believe that this is just the way it is—the division of labor, thanking to the mighty evolution.

The glorious and handy science also provides abundant evidence to support this.For example, an experimental study conducted by U of Pittsburg researchers showed that women shied away from competition in favor of sure money.There was no gender difference of abilities in performing mathematical addition in that study. It was also not due to the different confidence levels between them although women were less confident than men.It seemed that women just didn’t want to do a tournament, no matter what the cost and benefit their behaviors would incur. Using the usual scientific rhetoric, the authors hedged: “…there was a large residual gender effect.”

Although the Pittsburg study was termed as experimental study, it in fact provided nothing more than some descriptive conclusions.It was a carefully designed study which eliminated many plausible causal factors that might explain the conservative approach adopted by women.It confirmed observations from many psychological studies.There was nothing else to lead naïve readers such as John Tierney who prematurely inferred that woman’s risk-aversion behavior was “… largely innate, a byproduct of evolution and testosterone.”

The different attitudes and behaviors between men and women are not novel in the eyes of evolution psychologists.Over thousands and thousands of years, women have evolved to become more attentive, more emotional, and more conservative largely due to the traditional roles they are assumed: taking care of babies, managing house chores, and engaging less laborious activities.Those reckless and aggressive women would have less chance to preserve their genes.Indeed, the survival of the whole society mostly relies on how women care their offspring.Women are genetically built to be risk-aversion.

When it comes to evolution, there are two misconceptions in many people’s minds.The first is assuming natural selection operates only through physical environment such as harsh weather and foods.In fact, social environment is the major driven force in transforming human behaviors and attitudes. The rise of feminism after world-War II forever changed our view about women. More than 50% of women are in working force now and no one bothers to question that.

The second misconception is that evolution seems slow in modern society.It is true that biological functions may take thousands of years to change.But behaviors and attitudes can be modified quickly. For example, during last sixty years, The attitude toward gender in our society has already been changed. More and more women are in work labor and some have already been in managerial positions.Consequently, more and more men start learning to take care of children and sharing family chores.

The most disturbing mistake among most people is that they always look back. They observe the discrepancy, trace back as earlier as 70,000 years ago, and contently conclude that all are due to genetics, or evolution. Their conclusions always imply that there is nothing you can do about gender difference—it is built in their genes.The truth is that they have failed to look forward.They ignore the fact that evolution never stops. We have already witnessed many rapid transformations of our society during last sixty years.Why should we assume the man domination would continue forever?

In fact, the Pittsburg study proved that there was no difference in abilities.That is, both men and women are biologically capable of performing the same tasks.The difference lies in the preference or attitudes. It is well-known that attitudes, beliefs and behaviors are and can be learned, which renders a minor role for genetic force. Indeed the whole point of feminism movement is to change the societal attitudes and behaviors towards women. Given that women have less and less burden in taking care of family, if both societal attitudes towards women and women’s own attitudes change, they will show their aggression to the world, which will come pretty quickly.

Woman, your name is not frailty.