Bully Boys Vs. Mean Girls: Are Men More Belligerent Than Women?

In the 1970s, two Stanford Univ. psychologists “concluded in an influential book that sex differences were minimal in most psychological traits but considerable when it comes to aggression. This opinion has endured ever since. … Recent research bears out the broad brushstrokes of their claim but reveals that women can be equally, if less dangerously, belligerent.”