Sexism and gender stereotyping is in the air. Women are still looked down upon as the weaker sex. People still think women are more emotional than men, and really suck at keeping secrets. But all these “myths” are not true at all, according to science. Science tells us that women are unique people, each one of them different, and just because they have been portrayed in a way in popular media, we tend to generalize that for the whole women fraternity. Women love to settle down, marry and have kids. Men are reckless, sleep around, and are not serious about relationships at all. Women are the ones who love to get serious in relationships. But actually, men are the ones who want to settle more than women and women crave for independence in relationships rather than kids. Social scientists say that this is because the line between gender roles has been blurring for the past few decades.

Women can never be as horny as men

Statistics are thrown in your face that how frequently men think about sex in a day, and how women are so emotional about sex.

In a study, where, again, women were given anonymity, they admitted to having multiple sexual partners. In the same study, scientists told another group of women that their answers will be recorded and they cannot be anonymous. This group of women didn’t admit to polygamy and promiscuity at all.

Again. Social pressures make women act like not-women.

Women love gossipping more than men

This is ingrained into our culture so deep that a subplot of Mahabharata talks about the curse that Yudhisthira cast on Kunti – that women will never be able to hold a secret.

But studies show that men gossip as much as women do, perhaps even more. And they are just as bad at keeping secrets inside them. Thy will reveal it as soon as women do.

We never noticed it because men gossip differently than women, and hence, their conversations don’t sound very gossipy.