I'm struck by the stereotypes (...) such as women "don't know how to listen" and "prefer to talk."No way! I have never met a woman who did not have acute enough hearing to IMMEDIATELY pick out differences and what is better or worse.Excuse the emphasis, but I agree that that stereotype is absurd.
On second thought, maybe women in general don't need "to know how to listen": they discern differences naturally without "training" :)