On Woman's Approach to Vocation

In Manliness, Harvey Mansfield asserts that women tend toward sarcasm as a form of humor because they undercut others rather than [manfully] assert themselves with humor the way that men do. From Edith Stein's philosophy of woman and JP2's theology of the body, we know that women ought to bring their femininity to their vocation (their ability to bear children as integral to that). I wonder if part of what a woman brings to her vocation isn't a lightness regarding that work (an approach that Michael Oakeshott identifies as play, as opposed to work). Perhaps this lightness derives from women's close connection to the really weighty things of life--childbearing, life, relationships, etc. that enables them to prioritize more effectively than men do. And perhaps this lightness and teasing, which Mansfield identifies as sarcasm, is geared toward upsetting men's off-balanced priorities and re-orienting them to prize relationships over ideas. Just some speculation...