Women Cycle, Men Consummate: Possible Implications For Leadership

Bob Deutsch

My specialty is not gender differences, but my intention in writing about this topic is to stimulate conversation and discussions — pro and con — as regards to what I am suggesting. Leadership is an important issue in the world as currently constituted.  As a cognitive anthropologist I have been studying, for the last 30 years, how the mind works, how people “make meaning,” how people form attachments to things and how people make decisions. In that search I think I might have inadvertently uncovered something fundamental about the sexes: Women cycle, Men Consummate.

With this said, can a