New research provides evidence that higher testosterone levels reduce the risk of unemployment and increase the odds of landing a job. The findings, which appear in the journal Economics & Human Biology, suggest that testosterone levels in men are related to behaviors and cognitive processes that influence labor market transitions.
“We were interested in how biological markers (such as testosterone levels) relate to social and economic outcomes,” said study author Peter Eibich, the deputy head of the Research Group on Labor Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
“Data on such biomarkers are now frequently collected as part of large social science household surveys, such as the UK Household Longitudinal Study, which we used in our research project. Yet, our understanding of how these biological processes are related to social and economic behavior is currently still limited (at least for most of the biomarkers available).”
Makes sense, more testosterone, more desire to sire children and take care of them through a job, and also more desire to want to prove to the world that you are man by buying cars etc. Evolution manenos. But were does this research finding leave the CEO women and other working women?
What I know is that high testosterone levels lead to aggressiveness and cockiness both essential in being a go getter. Low levels lead to lower energy levels hence malaise.