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The Gender Empathy Gap is a phenomenon that people are likely to feel more empathy for one gender than another gender in a similar situation Many studies show that females have a higher score of empathy than males, but no significant difference in cognitive empathy, which mostly used self-report measurement.

Empathy in Different Genders

According to some studies, females can recognize facial expressions and emotions more accurately and faster than males, especially some neutral body language. Additionally, females can recognize males’ angry emotions better than males; males can recognize females’ happy emotions than females. However, some research shows that there is no difference between males and females on empathy. Researchers explain that females’ performance of recognizing emotion is driven by motivation. In other words, if females feel the work requires them to perform higher score empathy, they would perform better, or they will perform no differenty than males.

From birth, female and male neonates react to emotional stimulations differently. Experiments found that female neonates are more likely to cry when they heard others crying. Besides, they also have more eye contact with people than male neonates. Scientists believe that those reactions of female neonates may give them more chances to feel others feeling, which may amount over the years to a sufficient difference that can explain some of the empathy scores gap of males and females.

Gender Empathy Gap and Sexism

Sexism against females

According to the research, both males and females have a better attitude toward females than males and provide female positive traits, which is called the “women are wonderful” effect. However, the truth behind it is about sexism. Females are expected to behave nurturing, helpful, and warm as a domestic role, but males are expected to perform independent, ambitious, and competitive as a high-status role. It puts females in the lower status in the society but gives males higher rights, which is sexism.

Sexism against males

People are more likely to put females in the position of being protected, but put the male in a protector role, which causes less care on males’ mental health than females. However, the rate of suicide for males is 5 times higher than female for young adults.

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• Gender equality