Whether gender is relevant is not a normative question but an empirical question. Given that women were, for centuries, barred from obtaining education and then

Whether gender is relevant is not a normative question but an empirical question. Given that women were, for centuries, barred from obtaining education and then nudged away from science more than men, it is a very simple empirical fact that gender is relevant. I think it shouldn't be, and hopefully someday it won't be, but it is.