Gender differences

My colleague Fabian Tassano recently wrote about the gender pay gap. One aspect which he did not discuss is the question of statistical differences between men and women. The data on this issue is complex, but what is clear is that there is a strong resistance to considering the possibility that men and women, on average, are not the same.

The resistance to innate gender differences is part of a wider resistance to accepting that there is a significant heritable component to ability. This resistance tends to be found among intellectuals, rather than among the rest of the population.

If there are significant statistical differences between the population of men, and the population of women, then the application of pressure to force equality of outcomes between the two populations is clearly misplaced.