(2007-07-01) Baumeister Anything Good About Men

Roy Baumeister wonders "Is there anything good about men?" (Men And Women). Among other things, digs into the Larry Summers Women-and-science thing.

I’m suggesting the important differences between men and women are to be found in motivation rather than ability. What, then, are these differences? I want to emphasize two.

Perhaps nature designed women to seek to be lovable, whereas men were designed to strive, mostly unsuccessfully, for greatness.

Women specialize in the narrow sphere of intimate relationships. Men specialize in the larger group. *