... Women tend to take a lot more into consideration, so they take a bit longer to make a decision, but they are more often right than men. Men take the quickest logical path to a decision, an often wind up making mistakes in their judgement because they didn't think about their choice enough. It's useful in emergency situations for people to think fast, and men tend to excel here, although it's been shown in studies that women can also improve their efficiency to respond quickly in emergency situations. In most life situations, when you have the time to think about what you're doing, women excel, although men are capable of sitting down and "thinking like a woman" taking all things into account, if they are willing to have the patience to do so.
Men tend towards liking control of a situation. They usually don't like having a whole lot going on, and prefer focusing on one thing at a time, and their emotions and feelings are not very high up on that list of priorities. Men prefer this control because they are all alpha-males at heart and being the head of a family is their primary objective in life (from a purely physiological standpoint). Granted, there are exceptions to every rule.
Women, however, are usually okay with giving that bit of extra control to a man, provided they have leverage when it really matters to them (usually when others are involved). Taking care of the children is their physiological objective, which requires them to be nurturing and empathetic. They can let the man have control in most cases because they need to focus on raising the children and therefore do not have enough attention to spare on many other things. However, if any man tries to make a decision that will negatively impact the family (as the woman sees it), you can be dang sure she'll have something to say about it!
It's just the way we are. And I know, not everyone is the same, we're all unique and there are exceptions to every rule, but generally speaking this is the way we work. It's the way our brains are designed to function. Men are doers, women are feelers and both men and women are thinkers.