Since I don’t have data on the EQ, here’s a study where someone else worked with it. They found that the EQ had three factors, which they named “Cognitive Empathy”, “Emotional Empathy” and “Social Skills”. The male-female difference was driven by “Emotional Empathy” (d=1), whereas the autistic-allistic difference was driven by “Social Skills” (d=1.3). The converse differences were much smaller, 0.24 and 0.66. As such, it seems likely that the EQ lumps together two different kinds of “empathizing”, one of which is feminine and one of which is allistic.
Since I don’t have data on the EQ, here’s a study where someone else worked with it. They found that the EQ had three factors, which they named “Cognitive Empathy”, “Emotional Empathy” and “Social Skills”. The male-female difference was driven by “Emotional Empathy” (d=1), whereas the autistic-allistic difference was driven by “Social Skills” (d=1.3). The converse differences were much smaller, 0.24 and 0.66. As such, it seems likely that the EQ lumps together two different kinds of “empathizing”, one of which is feminine and one of which is allistic.