There’s been a few studies that show dogs are more wary around men for a multitude of reasons. I linked one such study in another reply.
It’s also theorized that dogs bond with women better than men:
Multiple ethnographic accounts describe women’s special relationships with dogs, cross-culturally (Cummins 2013). In fact, a remarkable finding that dogs’ gaze increased human oxytocin levels (Nagasawa et al. 2015) could be due to effects on women (Kekecs et al. 2016). Women might have greater influence than men in dog-human coevolution, and we may be the first to investigate gendered dog-human coevolution explicitly. We hypothesize that dogs’ affiliation with women has stronger effects on mutual utility and dog-personhood than does affiliation with men.
There’s been a few studies that show dogs are more wary around men for a multitude of reasons. I linked one such study in another reply.
It’s also theorized that dogs bond with women better than men:
https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-ethnobiology/volume-40/issue-4/0278-0771-40.4.414/Dog-Human-Coevolution-Cross-Cultural-Analysis-of-Multiple-Hypotheses/10.2993/0278-0771-40.4.414.full
Wow, that’s really interesting!
Thanks for sharing :3
Dog-personhood? Say more!