gengwall

“Good point. I wonder if they would try to claim more testoserone as inherently better for leadership?”

I think you and are in synch now Lin. That is exactly my point. Gender differentiation in testosterone levels, as one example, is indisputable. Yet – higher testosterone levels can hardly be claimed as a condition necessary for superior leadership. Ironically, the opposite conclusion has more evidence – that elevated testosterone inhibits effective leadership.

This is true regardless of the differentiating factor and regardless of the gender gap (which is rarely large and often overlapping). All of these things may impact HOW we lead, but as with virtually anything, they have both positive and negative impacts on how EFFECTIVE our leadership is. And no biological reality no matter how gender specific it might be grants a whole gender the right to take authority over the opposite gender.