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

At Your Service

At Your Service

[female police officers] are, for example, outstanding at coaxing perpetrators into squad cars…They tend to sweet-talk suspects into custody without provoking violent reactions. Rosener 1995; Janofsky 1998, p. B14].  Policewomen are also becoming recognized for their special effectiveness at working with juveniles and with cases of domestic violence and rape. [Ibid]. p. 100.

Women lawyers put their feminine wiles to work as well.  Because female lawyers tend to be quieter and more sympathetic than their male peers, witnesses sometimes forget they are talking to an adversary.  As a result, female interrogators get more information out of witnesses during depositions. [Harrington 1993]. P. 101.

Retail Sales

Retail Sales

Creative Leisure

Creative Leisure

Gracious Homes

Gracious Homes

Culture Brokers

Culture Brokers

Women Lawyers

Women Lawyers

Sociologists report that (male) senior law partners are more inclined to choose men than women to become partners. [Kay and Hagan 1998, pp. 728-43; Epstein 1981; Epstein et al. 1995, pp. 291-449]. P. 106.

Another factor, however, is that fewer women are willing to sacrifice precious time with family to meet the grueling schedule and demands these jobs regularly require. [Harrington 1993; Kay and Hagan 1998].  …after a few years of trial by fire, more women than men resign. [Ibid].  To accommodate women, some of America’s large law firms now offer women maternity leave, part-time positions, even part-time partnerships [Harrington 1993]. P. 106.

Male lawyers are often more interested in raising capital, buying and selling real estate, transacting mergers and acquisitions, and the other functions of corporate law….Men are also more attracted to litigation.  In the courtroom, it’s win or lose – a situation that appeals to more men than women. [Harrington, 1993, p. 16]. P. 107

More women become temporary lawyers, individuals employed for a particular job…In short, women are drawn to lawyering positions where rank, competition, and specialization are less important, and where working with people and thinking within a broad social context are central to the job [Harrington 1993]. P. 106.

In general, women are more interested in improving social conditions. [Harrington 1993, p. 16].  So they tend to be attracted by public interest law, health law, civil rights law, and environmental law, trust and estate law, and other kinds of law in which they work directly with individuals and mediate personal disagreements. P. 107.

Litigation

Litigation

Win-Win Solutions

Win-Win Solutions

Mediation, unlike arbitration, is a legally nonbinding negotiation process in with both parties try to work out a solution to their dispute with the help of an impartial, diplomatic, trained mediator.  …Women have a remarkable evolutionary heritage for this kind of work. P. 108.

Women’s Heritage as Mediators

Women’s Heritage as Mediators

Feminizing Justice

Feminizing Justice

Women lawyers, these experts say, are more likely to look at alleged or convicted criminals within the wider context of the crime itself and the legal rules of society. [Rosener 1995]. P. 110.

…male lawyers are more likely to view them (alleged or convicted criminals) within a narrower context of the crime itself and the legal rules of society. [Rosener 1995]. P. 110.  Moreover, male lawyers tend to focus on the rights and duties of autonomous individuals, the atomistic details,…

…while females lawyers more often consider relationships between people, the larger social milieu. [Harrington 1993] p. 110.

And female judges are more inclined than male judges to favor plaintiffs in cases alleging gender or race discrimination in employment.  [Songer, Davis, and Haire 1994, pp. 425-39]. P. 110.

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose,” said Lyndon B. Johnson.  Women will win.  With their ability to read minds and with their executive social skills, many will make shrewd business deals.  Their people skills may become priceless commodities.  And as women around the world come to dominate many sectors of the service industries and professions, they will bring comfort and novelty to millions of people’s daily lives. P. 111.

CHAPTER 5 --  HEIRS TO HIPPOCRATES

CHAPTER 5 – HEIRS TO HIPPOCRATES

Women as Healers

Women as Healers

This feminine talent for healing has long been overlooked or minimized by Western society.  But today women are becoming a major force in almost every sector of the healing professions.  They bring tremendous innate assets to these jobs: a natural emotional expressivity, empathy, a tendency to nurture, patience, and the special feminine physical ability to manipulate small objects, such as a surgeon’s scalpel. P. 112.

Men have made and will continue to make enormous contributions to all of the healing professions.  They have build and currently operate most of the essential equipment used to treat the very ill.  And they have saved millions from undue pain and misery. p. 113.

But women bring new attitudes to the job of healing.  They spend more time with patients.  They tend to work in teams with other professionals more regularly than men.  They are more likely to treat the whole patient, rather than just the symptoms of the disease.  And women are more inclined to mix traditional Western medical practices with alternative or “complementary” cures. P. 113.

Women as Healers in Traditional Societies

Women as Healers in Traditional Societies.

[traditional societies]  In these cultures, more men become the shamans, practitioners who heal with magic and their contacts in the spirit realms. P.113.

But women are the hands-on healers of everyday ills of the flesh.  P.113.  In fact, anthropologists have come to realize that in traditional societies mothers and grandmothers are often the diagnosticians and healers, the primary providers of bodily well-being..[Finerman 1995].p. 113.

Women’s Emotional Expressivity

Women’s Emotional Expressivity

[The following paragraph is too good to pass up – it is equally shared by males and females – it is in this column merely to add something to the male column]  The emotions are the furnace of the brain.  Fueled by chemical compounds, people are impelled to save a drowning child, declare their love, or savor the satisfaction of a job well done.  Anger, pride, piety, envy, patriotism, chagrin, jubilation: feelings are powerful, sometimes overwhelming tides that surge through the brain, coloring everything one thinks.  Ceaselessly they ebb and flow.  And just as the finite keys on a piano can play infinite melodies, the basic chemical compounds that produce the emotions can mix in numberless combinations, creating subtle variations of sorrow, loathing, disgust, fear, anxiety, or joy.  pp. 115 & 116.

Both men and women feel an incredible variety of emotions…yet the ability to express these emotions is the special trait of women.   Feminine emotionality is a worldwide phenomenon.  After Gallup pollsters asked people in twenty-two societies which sex was more emotional, they concluded that “More than any other trait, this one elicits the greatest consensus around the world as more applicable to women than men.” [Gallup Organization 1996, p. 6.] p. 116.

Men express poignant feelings all the time.  But they often express their feelings less directly, less openly than women do.  When they are depressed, men are much more likely to joke, drink, or just fall silent.  [Goleman 1995a]  Psychological studies report that men “internalize” their feelings; they keep them to themselves. [Hall 1984; Gottman 1994] p. 116.

Women prefer to talk about their anxieties, fears, or sorrows. [Goleman 1995a]. p. 116.

Men’s Emotional Restraint

Men’s Emotional Restraint

Men’s emotional containment may be due, in part, to child-rearing practices.  American mothers, for example, use fewer emotional words when they tell stories to their little boys.  They express a narrower range of feelings when they play with their sons.  And they avoid discussing complex emotions, choosing to explore these feelings with daughters instead. [Brody and Hall 1993, pp. 44-60] p. 116.

But as boys mature and their levels of testosterone rise, they become skilled at masking feelings of vulnerability, weakness, and depression.  Boys begin to avoid expressing sadness, grief, fear, loneliness, anxiety, guilt, and hurt. [Ibid.; Swain 1989; Tavris 1992, pp. 15-25; Stapley and Haviland 1989, pp. 295-308].  They camouflage these emotions with silence. P. 116.

When asked, teenage boys often refuse to discuss their feelings.  They become fluent at “joke-speak,” all of the quips and gags and seemingly offhand remarks that boys and men employ to mask their emotions. [Swain 1989; Tavis 1992].  Some even drive these feelings into their unconscious; they have no idea how they feel. [Brody and Hall 1993].  P. 117.

During marital spats, for example, men are more likely to retreat from verbal confrontation, fleeing into stormy silence and stonewalling a wife’s attempts to talk about feelings. [Gottman 1994].  .. recorded hundreds of marital quarrels, he found that 85 percent of stonewalling was done by men.  Even in India, China, and Japan – societies where little boys have traditionally received much more pampering and privilege than little girls – men do no express emotions as regularly as women. [Gallup Organization 1996]. P. 117.

Biology of Male Emotional Containment

Biology of Male Emotional Containment

They point out that negative emotions like fear, jealousy, and anger activate or act in conjunction with the autonomic nervous system (ANS), the bodily system that gets the heart pumping and revs up the body to fight or flee.  But in men, lower levels of negative feelings trigger this bodily arousal system.  Moreover, once aroused, men recover from the bodily symptoms more slowly than women do. [Gottman 1994].  P. 117

Chronic ANS arousal is harmful to both sexes.  So these psychologists hypothesize that men unconsciously withdraw from conflict, particularly marital discord, to avoid emotional interactions to preserve their health. [Gottman 1994]. P. 117.