But even Greenspan is prevented by polite convention from making the obvious point: women and men have different chromosomal structures, lifespans, organs, and hormone levels. There's also substantial evidence[1,2] that they differ in average levels of spatial, verbal, and mathematical reasoning ability (with women generally having an advantage in verbal and men in visuospatial/mathematical). We should not expect them to have the same outcomes on average.
Women also can only have at most 10-20 children over their lifespan, whereas men like Genghis Khan[3] can have a virtually unbounded number. This is why males have a greater evolutionary payoff for high-risk, high-reward behavior: intrinsically higher reproductive variance.
But hey. That's evolution, and even though it provides a consilient explanation for a variety of allied phenomena, everyone knows that doesn't and couldn't apply to human beings (we all well know what happens to people who propose that a behavior has genetic influences). It is instead easier to pretend that humans aren't biological creatures with hard biological constraints.
Yet if your premises are wrong, one is simply practicing fashionable creationism. And that is where we are today, presented with the spectacle of a privileged billionairess who lashes out at phantasms rather than wrestling with the realities of molecular biology. Why not lean in to a publication on behavioral neuroendocrinology, for a change?
[1]: http://www2.nau.edu/~bio372-c/class/behavior/sexdif1.htm
[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Female-Brain-Louann-Brizendine/dp/0767...
[3]: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0214_030214_...
[4]: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-how-and-why-sex-diff...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0767920104 http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=10
Men and women have systematically different muscle masses, lifespans, even organs. Yet it is taboo to imagine that their brains might be different too, on average. Indeed Ryan is persecuted for the indirect implication that women, on average, might be less technically inclined! If this generalization was actually untrue it would not be necessary to scream at people like Larry Summers to "disprove" it. The zeal of people invested in the denial of biology is astonishing; they seek to personally destroy anyone who even indirectly endorses anything related to gender difference.
http://www2.nau.edu/~bio372-c/class/behavior/sexdif1.htm
A graphic accompanies the full article:http://www2.nau.edu/~bio372-c/images/00018E9D-879D-1D06-8E49...
Here is Louann Brizendine of UCSF:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Female-Brain-Louann-Brizendine/dp/...
There are tens of thousands of papers in this general area on Pubmed.