Reply #9: I suspect because men & women have more in common than either would [View All]

[Vitruvius]

care to admit. Human beings are among the least sexually dimorphic of the mammals.

However, I do notice that women tend to be better at multitasking and at keeping multiple considerations in mind. A number of woman engineers I have known have used that ability to great advantage; my Mother (and my aunts on her side) were simply excellent at designing highly optimized, highly polished devices and machines with all tradeoffs perfectly balanced... When one looks one of their old designs, it seems almost inconceivable that it could be built any other way; everything seems so natural and so "right". But such designs are the hardest to achieve; most engineers simply cannot do it.