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The relevance of sex differences in risk-taking to the military and the workplace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

Kingsley R. Browne
Kingsley R. Browne
Affiliation:
Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, MI 48202 kbrowne@novell.law.wayne.edu
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Abstract

Sex differences in willingness to take physical risks and in concern for peer esteem may be relevant to whether women should serve in combat, since two major fears soldiers experience are of being injured and of not measuring up as warriors. Women's relative aversion to nonphysical risk may have workplace implications, since risk taking is an attribute of most successful executives.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 218 - 219
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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