Are Women Better Than Men at Multi-Tasking?

(Gijsbert Stoet, Daryl B O’Connor, Mark Conner and Keith R Laws) Background There seems to be a common belief that women are better in multi-tasking than men, but there is practically no scientific research on this topic. Here, we tested whether women have better multi-tasking skills than men. Methods In Experiment 1, we compared performance of 120 women and 120 men in a computer-based task-switching paradigm. In Experiment 2, we compared a different group of 47 women and 47 men on...