The following “links” of the sex differences found in Helen Fisher’s book, The First Sex is the completion
of a project that I started with the essay/chart found below the references.  That essay/chart is called Gender Differences in the
DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, 4th Edition) An Observation From an Evolutionary Perspective.
http://www.evoyage.com/BillsEssays/genderdifferences.htm 
If you click on the chart you will see that I have five columns; two for each sex and one for both. 
If you compare this DSM chart with the First Sex chart you will notice that the sexes/genders are switched. 
My brain is telling me to reverse the DSM chart and have the males on the left and the females on the right side. 
I know that you’re smart enough to do the switch, but it would make a neater package

MALE

FEMALE

Women on the Internet

Women on the Internet

Women in Education

Women in Education

In 1997, 89 percent of American women aged twenty-five to twenty-nine had graduated from high school, whereas 86 percent of men in the same age group had received a high school diploma. [Statistical Abstract of the United States 1996].  More women than men in this age group had also completed college, 29 percent of women and 26 percent of men having received college degrees. [Statistical Abstract of the United States 1996]. p.75

The Teachers

The Teachers

“Educate a man and you educate an individual;

Educate a woman and you educate a family.”  Women do like to teach.  In 1996, 98 percent of all prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers in the United States were women, as were 94 percent of teachers’ adies, 84 percent of special education teachers, 84 percent of elementary school teachers, 57 percent of secondary school teachers, 68 percent of vocational and educational counselors, and 45 percent of college and university teachers. [Statistical Abstract of the United States 1996].p. 76

[With charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, and home schooling].  This wind of change may propel more women into an occupation their ancestors almost certainly practiced as they sat with children beside the lakes of East Africa a million years ago. P. 79.

Chapter 4 MIND READING People Skills at Your Service

Chapter 4 MIND READING People Skills at Your Service

.Women have a remarkable talent for “reading” people.  Their social antennae are always on.  They pick up the tiny signals that people send, detect their motives and desires – and deftly navigate their way into the human heart. P. 84

Women are built for mind reading.  Touch, hearing, smell, taste, vision: all of women’s senses are, in some respects, more finely tuned than those of men.  Women also have a knack for decoding your emotions by looking at your face.  They swiftly decipher your mood from your body posture and gestures.  They remember more of the things in the room or office around you, putting you in social context. P. 84.

With their contextual view, their imagination, their networking abilities, and their linguistic and social skills, women have already established a strong presence in the service occupations and professions. . p. 84

Women are, on average, more sensitive to touch [Weinstein 1968; McGuiness 1976b; Galton 1984, pp. 40-42]. This female responsiveness begins a few hours after birth and continues throughout life.[Heller 1997] Women feel another’s touch when they touch. [Gandelman 1983, pp. 1-17; Hall 1984]  Women often stroke their lovers too delicately; they assume that men are just as sensitive to touch. P. 85.

Boys do more rough-and-tumble play; men shake hands more regularly; and men are more likely to touch strangers [See Hall 1984; Mitchell 1981] p. 85.

Infant girls reach out to touch their mothers more often than baby boys do. [Hall 1984].  But studies of people in several societies indicate that girls and women touch those they know more frequently than men do. [Mitchell 1981]. P. 85.

This feminine proclivity probably derives from millions of years of rearing babies….!Kung San mothers of the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa keep their infants in bodily contact 90 percent of the day…She sleeps next to her baby every night. [Small 1998].  No cribs, strollers, high chairs, or car seats for the !Kung. p.85 & 86.

To thrive, a baby must be cuddled, patted, and groomed.  To detect its needs, the mother must touch her infant regularly.  Cool? Rough? Supple? Rigid? Shaky? Soggy?  For millennia, women needed sensitive fingertips to collect clues about their infant’s health, thus selecting for women’s sensitivity.

Women Are Good Listeners

Women are Good Listeners

Men tend to prefer music and spoken words much louder at every frequency from bass to treble. [McGuinness 1972, pp. 465-73; Elliott 1971, pp. 375-80]. P. 86.

Women, on average, also have superior hearing.  For one thing, women are better then men at hearing high sounds, an advantage that begins in girlhood and increases with age.  Women are also more sensitive to loud noises. 86

The answer lies in deep history.  An ancestral woman needed superb hearing to rear her precious packet of DNA, her child.  Her baby’s slightest whimper, its sigh, its troubled breathing: a woman had to distinguish among these inchoate sounds to know when her infant needed sleep or food or hugs. P. 87.

On the plains of ancient Africa, women listened to their infants, listened to the wind and rain, listened for snakes and cats and rapacious birds, then “listened” to their own hearts to save their young.  Those with keener hearing attended to their babies; their babies lived to pass along this trait, and gradually natural selection favored women with a keen ear for sound. P. 87

Ancestral women probably used this superb sense to listen to their mates and lovers as well.  They needed to distinguish if these men were honest, kind, and fatherly before they bore them babies and devoted their lives to rearing these men’s genes. P. 87.

“Odor Prints”

“Odor Prints”

Human beings can detect over ten thousand different scents…But women can detect fainter scents than men can. [Doty et al. 1984, pp. 1441-43; Doty et al. 1985 pp. 667-72; Doty 1986, pp. 377-413; Cain 1982, pp. 129-42.].  During the monthly menstrual cycle when estrogen levels peak, a woman’s ability to detect odors gets even better. [Doty 1986, pp. 377-413].  Women live in a richer olfactory world.  They also recognize odors more accurately than men. [Doty et al. 1984, pp. 1441-43; Doty et al. 1985, pp. 667-72]. P. 88.

Women’s outstanding sense of smell probably evolved for the same evolutionary reason that women acquired their excellent sense of touch and hearing: to protect their young.  With their impressionable noses, ancestral mothers detected dangerous smoke, rotting meat, even the scent of a stranger in the dark. P. 88.

Women still use their sharp sense of smell to rear and protect their infants.  When mothers are blindfolded, they can pick out their own baby from a group of infants just by smell, something fathers cannot do with as much success. [Small 1998]. P.88.

Taste Buds

Taste Buds

Men liked these foods twice as sweet (sucrose added to soft white cheese and to heavy cream), Small boys relished cream with 40 percent sucrose! [Monneuse, Bellisle, and Louis-Sylvestre 1991, pp. 1111-17]. P. 89.

…women consume…strongly flavored foods with far less relish than men do, [Goleman 1994, p. C1, 8]. Because women, on average, can taste sweet, sour, salty, and bitter flavors in lower concentrations. [Doty et al. 1984, pp. 1441-43; Doty et al. 1985, pp. 667-72]. P. 89.

This feminine acuity probably also evolved from women’s primordial need to protect and nurture babies.  With their ability to detect bitterness, ancestral mothers could guard against poisons – since most poisons in the plant kingdom are bitter [See Levenson 1995] p. 89.

With their ability to discern degrees of sweet and sour, mothers could reject unripe, less nutritious fruit.  With their sensitivity to salt, our female forebears could recognize brackish water before they gave their child a drink. P. 89.

Night is Woman-Time

Night is Woman-Time

Men excel at seeing in the light.  Curiously, they also suffer more in very bright light. P. 90.

In the dark woman have superior eyesight.  Women adjust their vision faster to the dark and see more accurately in the dead of night. [McGuinness 1976a, pp. 279-94]. This is probably another legacy from deep history, when mothers needed good night vision to perform essential chores – feeding, doctoring, and comforting teary infants in the moonless grass. P. 90.

Because of the way the eyeball is constructed, men are slightly better at depth perception…

Women also have keener peripheral vision.  …while women have a somewhat wider field of vision. [McGuinness 1979].  In the deep past, women may have used this sharp peripheral vision to keep an eye on children while they worked nearby, perhaps beside some marshy lake, catching crabs or pounding nuts. P.90.

Women and Color

Women and Color

No one knows which sex loves color more.  But women usually distinguish colors, particularly the various shades of red and green, more accurately. [McGuinness 1976c, 1985]. P. 90.

One out of eight American Caucasian men is born with some deficiency in red/gree color vision.  Either they have trouble distinguishing most reds from most greens or they confuse more subtle hues, such as light pink and pastel blue-green, or brown and olive green. [Brody 1997, p. F9]. P.90.

Only 1 in 230 women is born with any sort of difficulty sorting red from green or seeing any of the more subtle shades of each. [Montagu 1953; Jacobs 1981; see Nathans, Thomas, and Hogness 1986, pp. 193-202]. P. 90.

Women can also remember shades, tones, and color values more accurately than men.  This color memory, as well as their superior ability to distinguish red and green, undoubtedly derives from women’s long ancestry of foraging for fruit and vegetables…with their sensitivity to color, ancestral women could tell what was edible and what was unnutritious, even dangerous.  Those with good color vision lived.  They fed their children more wholesome fare.  And as seasons turned into centuries, time selected for women with a superior color sense. P. 91.

Women’s ability to see shades of the color red may have helped them heal their infants, too.  We judge people’s health by the color of their lips and cheeks…but shades of red are also the color of fever, rash, and inflammation, of crying eyes and infected wounds. Those ancestral females who could interpret the subtle hues of red in an infant’s face and eyes detected early signs of sickness, as well as fear or shock. P. 91.

Reading Faces

Reading Faces

Women…have an outstanding ability to read facial expressions. P. 91.

Men, however, were extremely insensitive to unhappy expressions in a woman’s face. “A women’s face had to be really sad for men to see it.  The subtle expressions went right by them. [Kolata 1995, p. C7]. P. 92.

Women were somewhat more sensitive to sadness in a man’s face than in a women’s. p. 92.

Socially subordinate people often excel at interpreting the facial expressions of their bosses and others of higher rank. [Hall 1984].  Thus women’s superior ability to perceive sadness and other facial emotions might derive partially from centuries of being treated as inferior to men. P. 92.

In ancestral times, a man who misread an enemy’s face probably received a spear in the belly.  Males needed to discern the facial nuances of hunting companions, too.  But if a man misread a woman’s face, he incurred no more than a few angry words, perhaps the primitive equivalent of a night on the living-room couch.  Even the man who misread a child’s face lost little from the misinterpretation.  For men, misreading faces was serious only under dangerous—and infrequent—circumstances. Pp. 92 & 93.

If an ancestral woman misread a baby’s face, however, or the faces of her growing sons and daughters, she missed vital information about their daily health.   Women needed to know as much as she could about a man before she made love to him and bore his child. P. 93.

Body Language

Body Language

Women are also more skilled at reading all of the non-facial bodily clues that we unthinkingly transmit. P. 93.

Tests on thousands of men and women in nineteen countries demonstrate that women excel at reading a person’s emotions from his or her tone of voice, posture, gestures, and other nonverbal cues. [Hall 1984; Goleman 1995a, pp. C1, 9]. P. 93.

While men are more likely to concentrate on words. P. 94.

Girls and women pay more attention to body language, …while men…as a result, women pick up more of these nonverbal signals and notice them faster. [McGuinness and Pribram 1979]. P. 94.

Remembering Physical Context

Remembering Physical Context

Women are generally superior at noticing and remembering physical contexts. [McGuinness and Pribram 1979; Hall 1984].  For example, when women and men are shown a group of objects and then some of these objects are moved or removed, women are generally better at noting the changes. [Hales 1999]. P. 94

When women give directions, they specify twice as many concrete landmarks as men do. P. 94.

Men usually navigate by distances and cardinal directions instead…when men give directions, they give twice as many of these quantitative and cardinal references as women do. [Miller and Santoni 1986. pp. 225-35; Ward, Newcombe, and Overton 1986, pp. 192-213]. P. 95.   In a number of studies, this male method of orientation has been associated with male hormones, particularly testosterone. [Williams and Merck 1991, pp. 155-76; Geary 1998].  So this male trait most likely stems from men’s primordial occupation, hunting. P. 95.  Noting the position of the sun and sensing how far they had come in one direction was a more practical way to orient themselves as they followed moving quarry. P. 95.

Known as “location memory,” this feminine ability to recall stationary items emerges with puberty, when estrogen levels rise. [Silverman and Eals 1992, pp. 533-49] …from bygone times, when ancestral women were obliged to remember the location of water holes and the berry patches, termite mounds, and fig trees where they did their gathering.p. 94.

The Nature of Tact

The Nature of Tact

Dozens of psychological tests show that women are, on average, more skilled at what psychologists call interpersonal sensitivity. P. 96.

Women’s Genes for “Executive” Social Skills.

Women’s Genes for “executive” Social Skills.

Because men’s brains have somewhat smaller connective highways between the brain hemispheres, they may be less agile at interpreting the nonverbal data they have collected, hence less gifted at executive social skills. [Safer 1981, pp. 86-100] p. 97.

Neuroscientist David Skuse posits that women are more likely than men to acquire the genetic endowment for this suite of related social aptitudes. (“social cognition).  Why?  Because he and his colleagues have traced these social skills to a specific gene or cluster of genes on the X chromosome that influences the formation of the prefrontal cortex…due to patterns of inheritance and bodily interactions, this gene or gene cluster is silenced in all men but active in about 50 of women.  Hence about half of all women have the brain architecture to excel at perceiving the nuances of social give-and-take. Safer 1981, pp. 86-100]. P. 96.

Women Are Born People Watchers

Women Are Born People Watchers

Newborn girls spend more time than newborn boys maintaining eye contact with adults. [Hittleman and Dickes 1979, pp. 171-84; Hall 1984].  At four months of age, an infant girl can pick out facial features more accurately than a boy and better distinguish one person from another. [McGuinness and Pribram 1979]. P. 97.

An infant girl smiles more intently at a human face while a boy smiles just as readily at a blinking light. [McGuinness and Pribram 1979]. P. 97. By age one, girls also approach their mothers and adult female strangers more often than boys do and remain closer to them.[Mitchell 1981]. P. 97.

This feminine curiosity about people continues throughout life.  Girls and women pay more attention to faces.  They recognize faces more readily than boys and men do and they employ a “friendly gaze” more often when they interact.  They are also comfortable speaking and listening to others at closer distances. [Hall 1984] p.97.

Women smile more in social situations than men do[Hall 1984]—most likely to connect with others.  Women even smile more when they are alone, such as in restaurants or while listening to a tape-recorded story. [Hall 1984]p. 98.

…feminine “social smiling” begins in infancy and increases with age [Hall 1984]. P. 98.