Women Understand Body Language

I interviewed someone who is an expert today and our conversation was on the phone. During the conversation he asked me to guess where he was and I said he was standing. I was wrong. He was lounging on his couch looking at the ocean.. so we were both lounging and having a good chat about body language.(Topic of the cover story I am writing for November)

During our conversation, he made the following observations:

First, women are intuitive and already know most of the body language information he teaches.

Second, most of the people going to his workshops on body language are women

Third, men really need to know how to read body language.

Fourth, most men do not instinctively know how to read body language and only attend his workshops when dragged by women.

From a different source, I know that men, who are from abusive families, have the intuitive ability to read body language…. so men can develop the skill if it is needed for survival… Does this kick in only when abused as a child or do businessmen develop the ability when they exist in a Dilbert type work environment?