Emotional intelligence specific to females?

I think it's all social conditioning. Women were encouraged at a very young age to be more cooperative among the group, to listen to the feelings and emotions of others, while men are discouraged to express virtually any emotion besides anger. The mindset is toxic to begin with, but it's rather hard to shake. I mean, this conditioning even affects how men and women communicate! For instance, studies have shown that when women communicate face-to-face, they tend to directly face each other and make eye contact and so on which gives the impression that they commit themselves to the communication by responding to facial expressions from the other party, whereas men when communicating tend to shy away from eye contact and look somewhere else, not facing each other and making the communication look rather impersonal.

"Emotional intelligence is higher in women" seems to be a product of social conditioning and not an absolute fact in biology.