[bryanlarsen]

It appears that the traditional male superiority in logic and math can be traced almost completely to two things:

- the tendency of people to assume that boys are better at math, encouraging boys and discouraging girls

- the tendency for people to encourage young boys to play with spatial & logic toys such as Lego and for girls to play with dolls

[JackDanger]

Also: much of that "traditional male superiority" is simply non-existent. Statistics is a field where half of all working professionals are women.