“The average male compared to the average female IS better at math/science/engineering material. Male brains are wired
in a fashion that makes them better at this than females.”
Not quite correct. The distribution of IQ in men has a higher standard deviation than for women. That means there are more really smart and more really dumb men (percentage wise) than women.
Once science and math get advanced enough, most people regardless of sex cannot do them well, or much at all. It takes really smart people to do them well. There are more really smart men than women, even though average IQ as between the sexes is almost identical. It also means that there are a lot more men in jail than women (jail tends to favor the really stupid).
The distribution if IQ’s is different between men and women.
The ability to resolve and visualize spatial resolution is
different. The ability to plan and create complex structure is different. All of the above are different, but related.
The brains of males are different than the brains of females. This is due to hormonal influences during gestation. If you take 1000 men and 1000 women and give each of them the same test invariably the average score for the men will be higher than for the women on non verbal skills. IQ is only related to this phenomenon, a measurement if it...it’s not the driving force behind it, the physical structure of the brain is the driving force.