Rodney

In my experience, women _as a group_ tend to be better than men at detail work; they have more patience for it, concentrate better on it. That doesn't make them better multi-taskers necessarily; but it does mean that when multi-tasking routine or detail tasks they make fewer mistakes than would a man of similar multi-tasking tolerance.

I have visited on several occasions the 911 dispatch center in my area; the jobs pay well ($20/hr to start with great benes, no experience necessary, they train), and men and women both apply. Multi-tasking is vital and ongoing there, and they actually give you employment tests involving multiple stimuli to see how well you can track three or four different things at once. And when you look out across the floor at all the operators, you see mostly women. I asked the shift lead what kind of person does well at the job, and he said a lot of his best "raw' recruits tended to be experienced waitresses (and retired air traffic controllers.)