The article tends to use more polarized language, but it's worth observing that it took tens/hundreds of thousands of years to build up that stark 80/40 percent

The article tends to use more polarized language, but it's worth observing that it took tens/hundreds of thousands of years to build up that stark 80/40 percent success rates. At any time, the gender differences are a lot less stark, and of course, mean very little applied to specific people. Just because more men than women are CEOs of large corporations doesn't mean that a particular woman would be a poorer one than a particular man.