The intelligence of success, emotional intelligence, is said to be different in males and females. The present study was attempted to determine whether students from different genders are different in emotional intelligence and its related components in Iran. The Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory was distributed among 455 undergraduate university students majoring in English. These English majors were selected through availability sampling from Allameh Tabatabaee University, Khatam University, and Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University in Tehran. They completed the inventory in 30 to 45 min and a MANOVA was run on the results of the questionnaire. Results showed that there was no significant difference between the genders on their total score measuring emotional intelligence, but the genders did tend to differ in emotional self-awareness, interpersonal relationship, self-regard, and empathy with females scoring higher than males. Self-regard, a component where males usually score higher, has yielded different results in this study which can open new avenues of research.

Teachers' self-efficacy is of critical significance for both female and male teachers, and it can affect their job life. In spite of the fact that some scholars have investigated self-efficacy, there are no studies regarding teachers' gender and their subscales of self-efficacy (i.e. student engagement, instructional strategies, and classroom management). Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the relationship between gender and subscales of self-efficacy of Iranian EFL teachers. So, 34 EFL teachers who were teaching in private English language institutes in Karaj were asked to complete Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) questionnaire. After analyzing the data, it was revealed that males and females did not differ as far as classroom management was considered. However, they differed in terms of student engagement and instructional strategies; male teachers were better at student engagement, while female teachers were better at instructional strategies.

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