Why do women generally write more neatly than men?

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte
Better fine-motor skills combined with being naturally more detail oriented.

Perhaps this is why secretaries are generally female.

:evil:

 

[jagec]

Because they need to make the extra effort to get the same pay.

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Bryophyte
Better fine-motor skills combined with being naturally more detail oriented.

Perhaps this is why secretaries are generally female.

:evil:

I know you're trying to be misogynistic, but in this instance, you are probably right. Women are inherently better suited to multi-task than men (I'm talking generalities here, YMMV on particular individuals.) Running an office requires one to do many things at once and keep track of them all.

 

[Sqube]

Originally posted by: Atomicus
Women work out their fingers more, so they develop better finger control.

Us men start out working the wrists...

For the win!

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: notfred
Because they care about things like making thier notes look "cute". Men don't.

hell, until the last year or so my notes haven't even been legible to anyone other than myself, and sometimes not even I could read them.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Bryophyte
Better fine-motor skills combined with being naturally more detail oriented.

Perhaps this is why secretaries are generally female.

:evil:

I know you're trying to be misogynistic, but in this instance, you are probably right.

 

[abc]

i dont find them being neater but they tend to write more bubble looking letters than guys.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Women are ingrained to put more worth into appearance. Men are more functionality oriented, if you can read it we don't care what it looks like.

QFT

I could never see any sense in purposely making my handwriting look neat, but lucky for me it is apparantly very neat. Girls in class always comment on it when they see my papers next to some of the other guys'.

 

[DigDug]

its because men are writing things important and usually its a means to an end.

women like to write notes, shopping lists, and hatemail.


*just kidding*

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
imo, practice

ps - my handwriting is worlds better than my wife's

So is mine, my wife's a slob, I'm a neat freak.

Nonetheless, I'd agree yo ucould probably tell between our handwriting which was written by a female. I don't think femininity in handwriting is necessarily only neatness, I think it has a lot to do with angularity. Women draw softer letters, been more angular....

I'm sure research has been done on this....

/Goes to dig it up.

 

[Vinny N]

Originally posted by: kranky
At lunch today this question came up and none of us had a logical answer. We all agreed it is generally true - women write more neatly than men.

In fact, the group agreed it was usually possible to tell if a woman or a man wrote something by the handwriting.

Hmmm, I always found it to be a matter of public vs. private school. Even a few years early on makes a big difference. The few girls I've seen who have handwriting like a serial killer went to public school. Also, any guy who has had very neat handwriting went to private school for a few if not many years.

 

[djheater]

I know you'll all feel a bit funny (in the pants) about this, but here's an erudite article on a transexual website, that intelligently discusses the differences.

(and who would be more concerned about it than they?)

 

[zanieladie]

I have neat handwriting...