Very cool, if true

Based on my own experience of different countries, it is not a women thing. It is a subordinate population thing. The closer a society or subsection of a society is to substantive equality between men and women, the less you see it. It can be observed quite easily in countries like the UK and India, where class divisions are out in the open rather than denied. High-status women are not noticeably more empathetic than high-status men in relation to people of either sex whom they perceive to be of lower status. They are on the other hand noticeably more so in relation to high-status men.