Are Women More Empathetic than Men?

Kinds of unkindness

Detail from Sandro Botticelli’s The Brith of Venus

The purpose of this article is going to be to consider the different ways men and women experience empathy. I’m going to do that by exploring the empathetic styles traditionally associated with each sex, and what is often thought of as the moral superiority of one over the other - and the political and cultural implications of the differences between them.