Now we are actually producing more stress both for ourselves, and the opposite gender, based on how we respond to stress and how we reduce stress.

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But John Kavanagh, the Republican lawmaker who sponsored the bill, said he feared criminals might take advantage of the situation and expose themselves to children of the opposite gender.

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When we are stressed out, we revert even more into our gender specific style of communicating, we reduce our stress differently, and this snowballs into actually creating more stress for the opposite gender.

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But that could mean if one parent has more free time, the opposite-gender child could get the short end.

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In the same vein, women in the less gender-gapped countries were less likely to value income or age as appealing characteristics in the opposite sex.

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