Often participants in my EQ workshops have asked, “Well aren’t women naturally more emotionally intelligent than men. My answer , based on my experience of coaching men and women over the years has been, “Not necessarily.” I have found that both men and women have their unique strengths and their unique lessons to be learned. What it finally comes down to is that using emotional intelligence is a choice.
Gifted writer Barbara Ehrenreich makes that point very well in this article, using the Democratic candidates:
Barbara’s Blog
“Hillary Clinton smashed the myth of innate female moral superiority in the worst possible way – by demonstrating female moral inferiority. We didn’t really need her racial innuendos and free-floating bellicosity to establish that women aren’t wimps. As a generation of young feminists realizes, the values once thought to be uniquely and genetically female – such as compassion and an aversion to violence – can be found in either sex, and sometimes it’s a man who best upholds them.”
Who has more emotional intelligence men or women? What do you think?
Joseph Liberti
