By Felicia Pride

Straight from the BV boards, a discussion has started about whether or not women make better liars. Author Susan Shapiro Barash thinks they do. She believes that women are smarter liars and are more successful at the art of lying.

In her recently released book, Little White Lies, Deep Dark Secrets: The Truth About Why Women Lie (St. Martin's, March 2008), she exerts the argument that even though women may be better liars than men, society sends females mixed messages which fosters the lies that they tell.

For the book, Barash interviewed 500 women in effort to explain the reasons behind female deception. "Women lie as a survival technique, but also to get what they want," Barash told the New York Post.
Among the types of liars, there are:

•A woman who shoplifts, and has it "down to a science"

•A woman who tells her husband she is working late in order to be with her lover

•A woman who lies about her children's achievements to her friends

•A woman who pretends her husband is doing well when they are going broke

•A woman who has covered up her husband's emotional abuse for years

•A woman whose secret is her misery in being a stay-at-home mom in suburbia

•A woman who lies about loving her partner, deciding it's better to stay than be alone

If women are better liars than men, I would argue its because females put a little more thought into the lies they tell.

But I could be wrong.

What do you think? Are women better liars? Does society force women to lie?