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Multitasking isn't a sex difference — it's a task-design choice
A new simulation study finds that men and women coordinate five tasks at roughly the same overall pace — but men drop the conversational thread more than twice as often. The result reframes a long-running debate.
Desk note: Monexus treats this paper as a study about cognitive task design under load, not as a referendum on gender. Wire coverage led with the single sex difference in conversational deprioritisation; we read the paper as a more general claim about how working memory triages competing streams when capacity is exceeded.
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