Women have a much lower disgust threshold than men. It's not only apocryphal, it has been proven. What can appear really clean to husbands is a disgusting miasma of filth to the average wife. Women are so good at cleaning that it has been estimated that one woman in three in the UK works as a cleaner or some sort, or so I heard yesterday. Whether that's true or not, I don't know.
With their disgust mechanism being so sensitive, it's little wonder women are always vacuuming, dusting and inspecting nooks and crannies for any detritus -it's a preventative activity.
The larger mystery is why more women than men are attracted to nursing as a career, as nurses are exposed to all manner of disgust triggers - sick, faeces, blood, spit, pathogens, etc. and must therefore find it really stressful.
Men, with their higher disgust threshold, are almost immune to blood, injury, and dead things, which could be explained by men having evolved as hunters, and a hunter who balks at the sight of blood wouldn't make for a very good hunter. That would suggest that men would be better suited as nurses; however, it's one thing to be laissez faire about the sight of injury and another to actually care about it, unless it was the man himself who was injured or had man-flu.
Furthermore, cleanliness is important in a hospital environment - could you imagine men being hospital cleaners? It would be pandemic time.
Men, with their higher disgust threshold, are almost immune to blood, injury, and dead things, which could be explained by men having evolved as hunters, and a hunter who balks at the sight of blood wouldn't make for a very good hunter. That would suggest that men would be better suited as nurses; however, it's one thing to be laissez faire about the sight of injury and another to actually care about it, unless it was the man himself who was injured or had man-flu.
Furthermore, cleanliness is important in a hospital environment - could you imagine men being hospital cleaners? It would be pandemic time.
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