ray99 said:
Women multitask?????????????
Haven't met one yet who can have a headache and sex at the same time.
I don't know about that but I do know one who can make love while watching TV - which can turn a half-hour sitcom into a pretty hair-raising experience!
But I digress
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Mickymoody said:
I think women are more dextrous to men, but you don't see women doing soldering, or not in Europe.
I have to disagree there. I've worked in four electronics factories where nearly all the assembly work was done by women. That included making up cable harnesses as well as PCBs. The men were fewer in number and were more likely to be doing the mechanical stuff.
Lusi83 said:
I think your family background is an influence .
I'm sure that's got a lot to do with it. If you regularly see your parents doing something, you get the idea that this is something you can do too
though it doesn't follow that you'll want to. My mother is quite handy around the house and I attribute this to the fact that her father was a joiner. But there is, as I see it, a big difference between the sexes; at least in my generation. Women could
choose to dabble in DIY whereas we men were more or less expected to get on with it, despite the fact that some of us had two left hands . (I have a brother-in law who cannot grasp the concept of a left hand thread.
) To be fair though, that rule applied in reverse to a lot of other household tasks, like cooking, washing, ironing, knitting and sewing. My mother taught me all those things while I was still in junior school but sadly - or maybe conveniently
- all but the first two are distant memories.
PS: Our other half had no such examples to follow but she somehow became a dab hand with a paint brush - and before anybody gets the wrong idea, I do mean dipping it in a paint pot and spreading it onto a wall! I remember coming home one day to find that she'd repainted all the bedroom walls, including the insides of the built-in wardrobes.
