Women may not multitask better than men after all
Challenging a popular stereotype, new research suggests that men and women perform equally well (in fact, equally badly) at juggling different tasks.
Multitasking – doing two or more things at once or switching quickly between them – puts extra demand on cognitive capacity, but identifying its underlying mechanisms has been a subject of debate.
Its measurement has thus been wide and variable, and until now the scientific evidence for gender differences has been mixed.
Published by Cosmos Magazine.
