Gender and the Influenceon Emotional Expression

Since as long as people can remember, men and women have shown or hidden their expressions of emotion differently. I think that men and women have different ways of expression emotions because of gender roles and their biological sex. According to the book, women are more attuned to their emotions than men. I can think of an example where this fits my life. I was having a conversation with my boyfriend about finding another job since he was laid off from his old one months ago. I was telling him that I felt that he was just being lazy and if he really wanted to go get a job he would at least put a little effort into it.
When he started talking he would say a few words like, youre just jealous that you have to go to work and school. Why can't you just let me do what I want. When we got down to the bottom of it, I found out that his feelings were much different than the ones he shared earlier. Before he was not attuned to his emotions, but after a while he came to a better understanding of himself.
He realized that it wasnt that he didnt want to have a job so he could support himself better, but that he was afraid he wouldnt get as good of paying job as he had before. As we kept talking more and more feelings began to come out. We have had a few other conversations on the same subject but he would always say lets just drop it. He never wanted to express his feelings of anger towards being laid off in the first place and the anger he felt because I had a job and was supporting myself. He began to dig out the real roots of his feelings and became much more attuned. I feel that a women would have come to the conclusion earlier and would have expressed this feelings much sooner than my boyfriend did.