Indeed - a lot of research into this topic has been focused on breaking down and identifying many different types of competence and intelligence. https://en.wik

Indeed - a lot of research into this topic has been focused on breaking down and identifying many different types of competence and intelligence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology#Intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology#... However, as I pointed out in my other comment, specific measures do show considerable, consistent differences in performance between males and females. For example, males and females have had significantly different average SAT math scores since the 70s: http://www.aei.org/publication/2015-sat-test-results-confirm-pattern-thats-persisted-for-40-years-high-school-boys-are-better-at-math-than-girls/ http://www.aei.org/publication/2015-sat-test-results-confirm... This is only one measurement, however, and there are many others, with one sex or the other performing better in different areas. > Imagine if the results were that men were inherently smarter than women. Could you conceive of a way that this would go over well? Nobody (men or women) want to deal with that. People are individuals. As long as we treat people as individuals and evaluate them based on their merit, and their own behavior and performance, and make opportunities equally available to everyone, it doesn't need to be a problem.