Men and women react to strong situations equally well.
I typically keep very immaculate records from assessment centres that I work on. Here is what I found about men and women behaving in a business context. The stronger the situation, the more uniform is the response from women and men. At behavioural level and skill level, both genders, on an average, react to strong situations, in a similar fashion across most competencies. For example in a role playing exercise when the vendor threatens to withdraw critical supply, both genders show equally good displays of empathy and resolve the situation equally well. Difference between genders are small and statistically insignificant in strong situations (d= 0.02 to 0.24).