> In practical terms, imagine all humans have similar potential. This is evidently false. The intelligence trait is at least partly inheritable, and not all hu

> In practical terms, imagine all humans have similar potential. This is evidently false. The intelligence trait is at least partly inheritable, and not all humans are equally intelligent, so not all humans have the same potential. Now, if what you actually meant was "both genders have the same potential in general" (as opposed to every individual human being), then it's not as simple as that. There's some evidence that although men and women are equally intelligent on average, the distribution is flatter and wider for men. This means that there are more men than women at the extreme high and low ends of the distribution. This is part of the reason (though probably not the only reason) why men are more strongly represented among the extreme overachievers in STEM fields.