Probably from the day of the caveman, there has been controversy over what the differences and similarities are with men and women. Although there are still those who argue that men and women are equal in all things, too many studies have shown differences for any rational person not to recognize that these differences do exist. Harvard performed a huge research study to determine whether certain gambling stereotypes were real or myth and the results may surprise you.

The team of researchers took over 40,000 people (both genders) and gave them money to gamble with and they studied the results. While men are commonly thought to be the more practiced gambler and therefore more successful, the study dispelled the stereotype as a myth. Instead it turned out that women were not only more aggressive bettors than men, they also won 15% more money than the men did.

The Harvard study was done on land-based casino gaming and one analyst speculated that the popularity and ease of access of online casinos may have affected the outcome. The analyst said they were finding that many of the women had played the various games at online casinos, learned the strategies and took that knowledge into the land-based casinos.

That is one possibility, of course, but the other is that perhaps women are naturally better at gambling. We will probably never know the answer but it is another angle to add fuel to the fire with the ever present battle of the sexes.