Are women more emotional?

[AgnosticBoy]

Having a conversation with my female friends, I got some push back about women being more emotional than men. So figured, I'd bring that up here.

My view is that both men and women are influenced by emotion. I think women are more driven by emotion than men, on average. That might also depend on the situation. Men are more emotional or express it more during a sports event, while women are more emotional or express it more when it comes to matters involving romance and physical attraction.

Of course, I'm open to changing my position as I run into good points.

For Debate:
1. Are women more emotionally driven than men?
2. Is that a good or bad thing?

 

[AgnosticBoy]

Here's one stereotype:

It’s a myth that’s launched a thousand memes — and sit-coms and TV commercials, and so on. Men are the logical sex. Women are the touchy-feely types. Right?

Source: https://www.heartfeltcounselingmn.com/blog/2020/12/28/are-men-more-logical-and-women-more-emotional

I don't believe that as I don't think it's an all or nothing matter. Women also have an intellect part to their brain, just as men have an emotional part of their brain. My view is that men rely on the intellect more, on average, and women not as much.

One piece of evidence is by looking at the type of jobs that each gender tends to go for. It seems a lot of jobs that involve a lot of thinking in math and logic (computer science, engineering, physics, etc.) are taken by men. I presume the reason is that men value intellectual stuff more. Does that make them less emotional, though? Or are they just as emotional, but also use their intellect a lot as well?