| ...their mental abilities are more or less identical. No. The evidence suggests that Larry Summers was right, namely that men have a higher variance than women, though means are close to equal. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/321/5888/494.summary http://www.jstor.org/pss/2889145 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21038941 Seriously, the difference in math test scores between male and female students in different countries tracks sexual discrimination... Yes - the more gender equity you have, the better boys do relative to girls. (The scores of both genders improve with gender equity, but boy's scores improve more.) http://www.ams.org/notices/201201/rtx120100010p.pdf This document also shows that the greater male variance is mostly invariant across cultures. |