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

Emotional Flooding

Emotional Flooding

When men do tap into their feelings, especially into powerful ones such as fear, anger, sadness, or anxiety, they are more likely than women to be swamped by these emotions, a condition that Gottman calls “emotional flooding.” [Gottman 1994].  Some flooded individuals revert to primitive responses, such as hurling fits or shedding tears.  Emotional flooding is particularly evident when men get mad….men are much more likely than women to become overwhelmed by rage.  P. 119.

…it is not difficult to imagine why men could have evolved these traits…[in deep history]…It was not adaptive for an ancestral hunter to be consumed be fear as he stared into the yellow eyes of a leopard, nor by pity as he cut the throat of a baby gazelle, nor by compassion as he raided an enemy camp.  Primitive hunters who could contain, even stifle, their emotions much have survived disproportionately.  P. 120.

Feminine Empathy

Feminine Empathy

I think women’s emotional expressivity is a by-product of natural selection for one of humankind’s most admirable traits, empathy – the capacity to experience vicariously the feelings of others. P. 120.  On hundreds of tests of empathy, emotional responsiveness, nurturance, and affection, girls and women – from infants to octogenarians – get higher scores than boys and men. [Maccoby and Jacklin 1974; Hoffman 1977, pp. 712-22; Brody and Hall 1993]. P. 121.

When girls play, they are more nurturing with one another than boys are.  Psychologists Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Nagy Jacklin report that “women throughout the world and throughout human history are perceived as the more nurturant sex, and are far more likely than men to perform the tasks that involve intimate care-taking of the young, the sick, and the infirm. [See Browne 1995]. p. 121.

While thinking sad thoughts, the women’s brains were eight times more active than the men’s. [George et al. 1996, pp. 859-71] “Women seem to experience a more profound sadness than do men.” [Goleman 1995a, p. C9]. P. 121.

Here’s the point: The amygdale in the right brain hemisphere is not in direct communication with the one in the left hemisphere.  They do interact, but the network is circuitous.  With their better-integrated brains, women probably have more communication between the right and left amygdalas.  This may provide them with better access to their unconscious feelings. P. 121.

Winter Doldrums, Spring Fever

Winter Doldrums, Spring Fever

Numerous studies confirm, for example, that women experience almost twice as much depression as men. [Weissman and Olfson 1995, pp. 799-801; DSM III R 1994, pp. 317-91; Bower 1995, p. 346]. P. 122.

…surveys done in more than a dozen countries, including Canada, France, German, Italy, South Korea, Lebanon, New Zealand, and the United States, have reported that women actually do express more symptoms of classically defined clinical depression than men. [Bower 1995; Gove 1987].  Particularly in the spring. P. 123.

Helios, Ra, Mithra, Sol – call it what you will, the god of sunlight cheers up women more regularly than men.  Women are more sensitive to seasonal changes in light and dark.  [Brody and Hall 1993].  In short, women express the entire range of positive and negative emotions (except rage) with greater intensity and regularity than men do. [Brody and Hall 1993; Goleman 1995a; Gottman 1994]. p. 123.

This emotional expressiveness begins in infancy.  In a classic experiment, psychologist martin Hoffman exposed day-old infants to a battery of sounds, including wild animal calls, a monotonous computer-made language, and the unhappy wails of other infants.  All the babies cried the most when they heard the cries of other infants.  But girls cried more. [Hall 1984]  p. 123.

Surely ancestral women also needed to coordinate emotionally with their young.  Those who suffered when they saw a sick or unhappy infant devoted more time and energy to keeping this child alive.  Emotionally attuned mothers raised children who were well adjusted.  These children disproportionately lived – gradually selecting for women’s superior ability to express sadness, pity, empathy, compassion, and other nurturing emotions. P. 123.

But everywhere in the world, no matter what kind of culture one examines, women expend far more time at hands-on infant care than men do. [Rossi 1984, pp. 3-25; Katz and Konner 1981; Frayser 1985].   They always have.  And among almost all of our primate relatives, females do all the nurturing of infants.   To ensure that their young are cared for, women have evolved a powerful capacity to feel and express empathy. P. 124.

The Chemistry of Empathy

The Chemistry of Empathy

The basic brain chemical oxytocin is also linked to nurturing.  Although both sexes produce this pituitary hormone, mammalian females produce much more of it – particularly as they give birth. P. 124.

Emotions in the Workplace

Emotions in the Workplace

Women’s Patience

Women’s Patience

Women of all ages have more of this precious gift than men.  American girls, on average, have longer attention spans than boys.  Girls devote more time to fewer projects, and they are more likely to finish the projects they start. [Rosener 1995; Helgesen 1990; Duff 1993].  They are even more patient when they invest money in the stock market. [Paine Webber 1997]. P. 126.

This feminine gift has a corollary among our closet relatives, chimpanzees.  Female common chimps spend almost three times longer than males at tedious, time-consuming jobs like cracking nuts and collecting insects. [McGrew 1981]. P. 126.

Impulsiveness, the opposite of patience, is associated with low levels of serotonin, a basic neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain.  Men have fewer receptor sites for this neurotransmitter in at least one brain area associated with the emotions. [See Blum 1997] p. 126.

How Women Will Grip the Scalpel

How Women Will Grip the Scalpel

Compassion.  Patience.  Beside these qualities, women have a particular physical aptitude that should serve to their advantage in the healing professions:  Their skill at manipulating small objects.  A woman’s skill at manipulating little objects increases during the monthly menstrual cycle when estrogen levels peak.  [Hampson and Kimura 1988, pp. 456-59; Kimura 1989, pp. 63-66]. P. 126.

[insect “fishing” with a twig] Female chimps do three times more of this patient, dextrous work than males do. [McGrew 1981].  Female chimps and orangutans also manipulate leaves and twigs and other objects more often than males. [Nadler and Braggio 1974, pp. 541-50]. P. 127.

Man the Engineer

Man the Engineer

Men are generally built for strenuous action and power instead of fine, precise work.  Men are, on average, more proficient at throwing, catching, kicking, running, and jumping – “gross” body movements. [McGuinness and Pribram 1979; McGuinness 1985; Kimura 1992, pp. 118-25].  These skills are associated with specific aspects of male brain architecture as well as with the male hormone testosterone [Nyborg 1994; Geary 1998].  So they almost certainly come from millennia of stalking, chasing, surrounding, and felling prey. P. 128

On average, men are far more spatially and mechanically talented than women. …An infant boy is better than a girl at tracking a blinking light across a TV monitor.  Little boys excel at predicting the path of a moving object. [Burg 1966, pp. 460-66]. …When it comes to computers, girls use them deftly – but boys love them.  By age ten, boys are better, on average, at anticipating where specific patterns will appear in paper-folding tests and in matching a three-dimensional object with a second one drawn from a slightly different angle. [Maccoby and Jacklin 1974].  When testosterone floods the male brain at puberty, boys generally begin to outstrip girls in geometry, mechanical drawing, and other spatial tasks. P. 128.

In studies of over 150,000 Americans aged thirteen to twenty-two, tested over thirty-two years, those individuals whose scores fell in the top 5 percent to 10 percent in science, math, mechanical reasoning, and engineering overwhelmingly were male. [Hegges and Nowell 1995, pp. 41-45; Hyde, Fennema, and Lamon 1990, pp. 139-55; Halpern 1992]. Pp. 128 & 129.

Testosterone Creates Spatial Acuity

Testosterone Creates Spatial Acuity

How Women Heal

How Women Heal

Female physicians schedule fewer patients per hour, when not constrained by the pressures of “managed care.”  In 1992, female doctors average 97 patients per week, while male doctors saw 117. [Braus 1994] p. 130.

Videotaped office visits confirm this gender difference.  They ask more questions, listen more to the answers, and spend more time with patients, be they male or female, [Zuger 1998b]. p. 130.

In a 1994 poll, medical students reported that female physicians are “more sensitive, more altruistic, and less egoistic” than male doctors. [Braus 1994, p. 44] p. 131.

“Male doctors tend to be puzzle solvers…

…whereas women tend to be healers. [Zuger 1998b, p. WH20].  Part of women’s healing gift are their abilities to listen, talk, touch, empathize, and nurture—talents that come from feminine deep history. P. 131.

Women Doctors Choose Different Paths

Women Doctors Choose Different Paths

Men tend to choose high-tech specialties, such as vascular surgery, cardiology, radiology, anesthesiology, and pathology – fields that use their spatial and mechanical aptitudes and require less long-term, person-to-person interaction. [Braus 1994; Redman et al. 1994, pp. 361, 368-69]. P. 131.

Women gravitate to internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, family practice, and other primary-care subspecialties that emphasize hands-on, nurturing treatment.

Women are also more interested than men in healing as members of a team. …female doctors are almost twice as likely to work for a hospital, for an HMO, or in group practice, while more men work for and by themselves.  [Braus 1994; Weisman et al. 1986, pp. 776-77].  This may stem, in part, from women’s natural proclivity to form egalitarian cliques. P. 131.

Team doctoring may also appeal to women because female physicians are generally more interested in treating the whole patient, rather than focusing narrowly on the symptoms of a disease. P. 131.

Nurse-Practitioners

Nurse-Practitioners

Like most nurses with advanced training, they also tend to recommend diet and exercise regimens, rather than the more costly treatments more often prescribed by technology-minded male physicians. [Freudenheim 1997, pp. A1f.]. p. 132.

Healing the Whole Patient

Healing the Whole Patient

Complementary Medicine

Complementary Medicine

The Return of Midwifery

The Return of Midwifery