Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes 1st Edition

A must read for anyone who wants a cursory understanding of the differences between boys and girls and men and women. This book has an extensive bibliography

Required reading for anyone who wants to understand themselves, and our species from a scientific view point. Just as Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments, are not popular reading, Benenson's documented data, and explanation as to the cause of human's behavior is not flattering. Thus it has been ignored when it should be considered essential knowledge, for anyone wishing to consider themselves educated.Do yourself a favor, buy it, read it, and understand our world more clearly.

These are interesting ideas neatly presented by a highly qualified author. They are especially interesting when viewed against the backdrop of David Geary's comphehensive theory of sexual differences presented in his book "Male, Female".

For evolutionary reasons and millennia of polygamy, women are set up to undermine women who appear to be more competent than they. It's not a conscious decision. It's a feeling of dislike, that women act on without realizing its origins.The effect it has had on women is terrible. Since women now have access to good jobs, they find there other 'competitors' and engage in epic battles that are totally pointless and make everyone look bad. Invariably, male managers step in to stop women from fighting. Many (most) women cannot effectively mentor each other and will not nurture female talent. The consequences became more obvious after Hillary lost the election.The author tells some terribly inconvenient truths. This book should have been on a best seller list, but female authors typically get ignored.

This book should be bought in addition to “What to Expect When Expecting.” While the aforementioned book details the experience of gestation, this book is about what comes after. A science-based cross-cultural, cross-species view of sex differences that is extremely engaging. Dr. Benenson’s easy to read book is a must. I find myself talking about often. As I read it I observed and applied the knowledge in the book to my children’s behavior. The accuracy of the author’s work was jaw dropping. I’m very happy I discovered this book.

It had always puzzled me why women and girls run through best friends like toilet paper, this makes a lot of sense of just how unique men’s and women’s social dynamics are. Also explains my hobbies as interests when I was a boy. I thought my childhood obsession with big explosions and throwing rocks made me odd. Turns out that’s normal.

Clearly written and debunks the myth that men and women are the same. They are innately different and this should demolish the politically correct position that all professions and lifestyle choices should have equal representation of the sexes. Innately most men and women like different things. That doesn't preclude individual men and women choosing from the entire gamut of professions and lifestyle choices but it does mean that more girls are going to choose to care for their families and men to volunteer for the military. A great read/listen.

This book is flawlessly documented and extremely difficult to argue with. The author's focus on the behaviors of children across cultures is very convincing with regard to selling her points as inborn traits. My biggest complaints are with the book's tone--the title alone is worth a thousand facepalms. It's a brilliant literature review on a topic seldom covered with this level of candor. I highly recommend it.