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I've never noticed it. For every man who can't multitask, i can name a woman with the same inability. I think that if it were really possibleto get a percentage of how many women are good multi-taskers vs. how many men, the percentages would be quite similar. Many people are assumed to be good multitaskers, but simply have good memory recall and good short-term memory, and can't multitask to save their lives.
I think the perception favors women because people look at a mother holding dry cleaning, a baby, and a shopping list and think "multitasking", when really you're witnessing a person taking care of several items in a linearly-ordered fashion, albeit possibly all held within memory, but not multitasking. Multitasking does not mean "able to memorize all the steps required, and then carrying them out in that order", which is what the scenario above depicts.
There are many cases of multitasking having to do with being a mother, or childcare in general, but i think the overall perception that causes favor to fall on women is the stereotypical "mother" image of the SUV or van full of shit from the day's rounds at various stores (which, like I said, is not actually multitasking).
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