In the article “Are Women Really Better at Multitasking?” Talks about how most females are better when it comes to doing more then one thing at a time. “However there is a drag on productivity for everyone, regardless of gender.” The article creates a study taking 100 students both male and female to prove who is better doing multiple things at a time. Some were giving tasks such as solving math problems and finding restaurants on maps. while others had to think of new ways to find a lost key as well as answering phone calls while still doing these tasks at hand. The study’s also show that about 70 percent of females are able to work better than most men.
One idea that I found most interesting was how the author was saying women are better than men at doing more than one thing at a time based on studies and the tasks that were given. Although one of the task that was given to both male and female was they had to look for a key. The men didn't really take there time to think about the task they were given because they just jump right into looking for the key without thinking about it first. The women’s took their time and plan it out first trying to cover every area they can. Why I feel that this is important because its a good way to see who better than who when it comes to multitasking. Men don't seem to think about certain things a lot of times when they are being giving assignments to do certain things.
I agree the reason why I feel that most men do not really think about taking steps before they do certain things and women do is because doing more then one thing at a time can be very confusing if you don't follow the right steps it can be a distraction. It might take you a little longer to accomplish your task at hand. Thats why its important to take a step back and think about what you going to do and how you going to solve it before u actually do it . Females tend to know and think about what to do when its comes to doing more than one thing at a time like for example I have a cousin and most of the time she chats on the phone and answer questions while she prepares to cook for dinner at the same time. I feel that when u focus on more thing one thing at a time it can slow you down from doing your other tasks.
Furthermore the reason why I feel that multitasking can slow u down from doing your other tasks are because I had times when i was trying to do more then one thing at a time and it did not work. I was doing homework and I also had my tv on at the same time. What i realize was as i was doing homework I kept on looking up every min at the tv. After some time had passed I found myself still working on the assignment. This proves that whenever you are trying to multitask you might not be able to do both things well at the same time this goes for both male and female. I really feel that while trying to performed multiple tasks at the same period of time can really slow you down from doing your other task. Yea studies shows that females are better when it comes to multitasking but they never argue on how when doing so that this can really and actually slow you down from working on your other tasks or even distract you depending on what you doing.
In conclusion I think multitasking is a mind thing you must think harder when doing two or more things at the same time. Its not easy and it can become confusing if u do not think about what you are going to do before you do it.
