‘Be more vulnerable!’ What women can teach men about friendship – and what they can learn from men

Banter, backslaps and no falling out – or baring your soul and obsessing over BFFs? When it comes to friendship, men and women tend to do things differently. So what can they learn from each other?

To say that women’s friendships tend to revolve around emotional conversations with another individual, while men prefer group scenarios and can only share their worries after a few pints is a sweeping generalisation. Yet a study by the University of Oxford concluded pretty much that: male friendships are more likely to flourish around a shared activity (hello Mamils), while women prefer intimate, one-to-one interactions.

Science hasn’t fully explained how much of our friendship styles are dictated by nature and nurture, but there are hints. Research by Dr Anna Machin, a renowned anthropologist and author of Why We Love, has found that women get more emotional connection from their female friends than from any male romantic partner.

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