Disguised competition

Better disguised forms of competition minimize retaliation. Girls use complex verbal and non-verbal tactics and physical movements that appear non-competitive on the surface.

By age 3, girls far more than boys emphasize their caring and egalitarian natures, and ‘niceness’, which means concealing their goals.

‘What girls learn to do with speech is cope with the contradiction created by an ideology of equality and cooperation and a social reality that includes difference and conflict’.

- The development of human female competition: allies and adversaries

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