Women have always cribbed that men are incapable of doing more than one thing at once. Now, a study has confirmed that men really are worse at multitasking than the fair sex, though it does depend on the task. Psychologists have carried out the study and found that when both women and men work on a number of simple tasks — such as searching for a key or doing easy maths problems — at the same time, women are much much better at multitasking. In fact, according to them, females are better able to reflect upon a problem, while continuing to juggle their other commitments, than men, 'The Daily Telegraph' reported. "We have all heard stories either men can't multitask or women are exceptionally good at multitasking. But there did not appear to be any empirical evidence for this. It was all based upon folklore and hearsay when I looked through the scientific literature," Prof. Keith Laws, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, who led the study, said. The psychologists gave 50 male and 50 female students eight minutes to perform three tasks at same time — carrying out simple maths problems, finding restaurants on a map and sketching a strategy for how they would search for a lost key in an imaginary field.