Women balance tasks best?

ENGLAND. It’s a complaint that women have been making since time immemorial: Why can’t men do more than one thing at a time? Now researchers say they have proven that women are right: Men are hopeless at multi-tasking.

Psychologists at the University of Hertford-shire, UK, gave a group of men and women a series of tasks.

The addition of other, simple tasks, meant men performed much worse than the women.