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I don't want to hear about someone's wife who is a Mathematician. Some women are excellent in math, some men are excellent writers.

I just wonder many exceptions are needed before it can no longer be said that there's a rule.....

My big issue with all of these brain studies is that they cause gross generalizations out in the non-scientific populace that end up unnecessarily discouraging people from trying things. It doesn't mean I think we shouldn't study it, just that people need to take these for what they're worth.
What you do with what you've got is more important than what you're issued in all cases, men or women. No sense having a fast brain if you don't use it :lol:.

And I'd rather see everyone judged on their individual merits rather than some "women are this, men are that" standard that may not apply in their case, particularly in the workplace.

I was always good in math and science (am a system administrator now) and if I had a dime for the number of times I was told I couldn't or shouldn't do something technical because I was a girl I could retire now. I didn't let it stop me, but I wonder how many other less stubborn girls let it stop them, which is a shame.
Same goes for men - I wonder how many men who would've been great in a "women's" field such as teaching or nursing were discouraged from going there because they weren't the right gender.

Intellectually studies like this should be held as an explanation for why men and women are attracted to certain field. Not at all a limitation.

Some fields do have gender barriers, such as nursing. A man can be an excellent nurse.

The only thing I have a problem with

I don't want to see female firefighters. If I was in a burning building and I saw a little woman my size coming to save me I'd freak out.

My big issue with all of these brain studies is that they cause gross generalizations out in the non-scientific populace that end up unnecessarily discouraging people from trying things.

It's a continual battle between that, and the claims of bias or prejudice being the only reason there aren't as many of this group as that group in a particular occupation.