Biocultural Differences between Men and Women

Now, you have it. A piece of scientific evidence suggests that men and women are not biologically equivalent. But then, researchers will need to contort their minds to explain the gross disparity in terms that fit the feminist narrative. They cannot accept that it has something to do with biology. They have to make it all a social construction, one that, in this case, they want to solve by making men do more housework.

At issue is diabetes. It turns out, by the latest scientific study, that working more at a job increases a woman’s risk for diabetes while working more hours on the job decreases a man’s risk. Puzzling, don’t you think?

It’s not about a greater propensity for women to contract the condition. It’s about the fact that extra work actually reduces a man’s diabetes risk while it increases a woman’s. Hmmm.

Here is the summary, via the Daily Mail:

Working at least 45 hours a week increases the risk of type 2 diabetes in women - but appears to protect men from the disease, a new study has found.

The Canadian study on 7,065 workers is the first to look at the impact of working hours on diabetes risk in substantial numbers, including both genders. 

They found that, while longer hours decreased a man's risk of the disease, clocking up more than 45 hours boosted a woman's risk by 63 percent.

Might this suggest that women ought to work less? That would be a sensible solution. But, the researchers do not even consider this possibility. For them, it’s all about what used to be called the second shift, the simple fact that women spend more time with children and spend more time performing household chores.

The story continues:

Lead researcher Dr Mahee Gilbert-Ouimet said it seems to boil down to the fact that female workers still tend to take on the bulk of running their household outside of the office.

She said it might be the same for men if they were in similar positions, but those that work the most hours tend to be the best paid, in higher positions, with little housework, affording them a sense of stress-free happiness that seems to be protective, Dr Gilbert-Ouimet said.

Of course, this is absurd. Men who work more hours tend to have more responsibility. Only an ignorant researcher could imagine that having greater responsibility leads to less stress. Do you think that generals in the army have less stress than corporals? Do you think that being responsible for the outcome of a battle is less stressful than making dinner for the children? People who occupy high executive positions are simply better at managing stress.

As often happens, the feminist mind warp misses the point entirely.

And besides, why is housework necessarily more stressful? Do you consider helping a child with homework is more stressful than managing a factory? Did you consider that many mothers actually enjoy spending time with their children?

The researchers are having none of it. Having put their critical faculties to sleep, they pretend that the solution is to have men do more housework. The lead researcher does not consider the possibility that more housework might mean less office work and that less office work might mean lower salary and fewer promotions. She fails to consider that these men might resent having to do more work around the house, and that they might not be able to do it very well. Their presence might simply gum up the works.

'I expected these findings for women because they still assume twice the family responsibility compared to men, so when you sum up the amount of paid work and the amount of work at home compared to men, it makes sense,' Dr Gilbert-Ouimet, a postdoctoral student at Centre de recherche FRQS in Quebec, told DailyMail.com. 

'Having better pay and a better position helps [to lower the risk], and I think it would help if husbands did a bit more of the work at home.'

The research is compelling. Apparently, the division of household labor seems to support better health for both men and women. The solution to the problem, obviously, is not for men to vacuum more floors, but for women to work less outside of the home. Naturally, the thought did not cross the feminist mind.