What Happens When Women Act Like A BOSS

A new study reveals that when women are acting from a powerful position they get a spike in testosterone. Cara Santa Maria (Talk Nerdy), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), Margaret Howell (The Lip TV), and Elliot Hill (The Lip TV) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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“When women simply act as if they are powerful, this, apparently, is enough to cause a measurable physiological change in their bodies, and a substantial one at that. Acting like a boss (literally — we'll get to that) increased women's testosterone levels by 10 percent on average, according to a fascinating new paper published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Testosterone is typically associated with men, and for obvious reasons. Men produce 10 to 20 times more of it than women, and in men healthy levels of the hormone is linked to things like a higher sex drive and better sperm production. But it’s also thought to play a role in the way men behave, in that men with higher testosterone levels tend to act more aggressively than men with lower levels of the hormone. But this new research poses an interesting question: Do men act powerful because they have more testosterone — or do men have more testosterone precisely because men are typically conditioned to act more powerfully?”