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Taylor, my five year old male Pem, often these days goes without toileting for 15-16 hours ( from around 7 at night to after 10am the following day). So I can easily see where the average niormal healthy suitably aged female dog can hold off urinating for upwards of 12 hours.
While Alice, the six year old Pem I look after on occasions is almost up to Taylor's standard in urinating in spurts and seemingly leaving a mark at vantage places (as well as lifting her leg on occasions), Nina, the year old Labrador I walk three times a week, tends to empty her bladder all at once on our 1 hour walks/romps.
I would say that the majority of canine behaviourists would say that male dogs are generally less passive than are female dogs and therefore more dominant and more ready to display self-confidence.
When I wrote my article on why female dogs do better at agility than do male dogs, the unanimous opinion among canine behaviourists and trainers that I interviewed was that females are generally easier to train/more trainable than are the males. Also there was a study done on the subject in the USA some years ago. Among the reasons why females are easier is the general comparative passiveness of females and that males are often distracted through things like wanting to mark territory.
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