Respectfully, no. What it indicates is that it takes women more effort to produce the same scores men achieve with less effort.
I.e.: on average men have a higher aptitude in the STEM majors.
It can go at least two ways, neither of which is favorable to women:
Johnny studies 6 hours and gets a B+ on the big Math test.
Beth studies 18 hours and also gets a B+ on the big Math test (because Beth just isn’t very smart, but she works really hard to achieve equivalency).
Johnny studies 6 hours and gets a B+ on the big Math test.
Beth isn’t really sure how much she studied and isn’t really sure how much Johnny studied, but she only got a B+ on the test and that is just SOOOOO unfair, because she tried really hard and she’s clearly a victim and everyone is out to get her and she clearly deserves an A.
Really, how do we know how much “effort” either
is putting in aside from their perceived ideas?
I.e.: on average men have a higher aptitude in the STEM majors.
All people do not have the same aptitudes.
Women and men have statistical differences.