Gender Stereotypes and Inequality Affect Emotional Intelligence

Over time, society has created gender stereotypes that men and women must conform to. The authors analyze this idea in the article “Gender difference and emotion perception”. This article, published in January of 2018, discusses an experiment which is testing gender differences in emotions and using self-reports to gather data from women and men. As argued, women have a higher tendency of recognizing and handling emotions compared to men. (Fischer, Kret, Broekens, 4) The idea of gender inequality is related considering males have to comply with the “man box” and therefore, are less…