Steve Sailer reviews Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality Steve Sailer has a very informative book review over at UPI. Some excerpts:

Instead, Browne argues that many of the current sex differences in job choice and pay stem from biological differences between the sexes in cerebral skills, personality, and physical strength. For instance, he reports, "In the top 10 percent of mechanical reasoning ability, males outnumber females by approximately 8 to 1." In contrast, women generally outperform men in some important verbal skills. Yet, men still outnumber women among the very best talkers and writers, or in just about any other capability, Browne contends. He claims that this is due to greater variability among males. As any woman could tell you, there are more stupid men than stupid women; but there are also more male than female geniuses. Moreover, males, it appears, are more likely to obsess over mastering subjects that are irrelevant to their personal lives. For example, "The ratio of males to females among those scoring over 700 on the European History College Board test has ranged, over the years, from 4 to 1 to 6 to 1." Thus, Browne suggests, men are likely to hold most of the most specialized and demanding jobs in just about any field.

Personal observation: When it comes to computers, one problem that short-changes women is that they simply don't play with them. This is the primary reason that they lag I believe. I've known of plenty of women that could use applications very well, and squeeze all that they need out of its functionality for a given task. But, I rarely saw them start it up and just play with options and settings and then go into something totally unrelated. This is connected to an interview I remember on NPR a few years back bemoaning the lack of women in tech. Many of the female engineers complained that technology is not shown to be practical to women. They asserted, rather proudly, that women will use something when it has a useful role in their lives. I think everyone can agree that this is somewhat shorted sighted. With this reasoning, everyone would have gotten "CISCO CERTIFIED" 3 years back, rather than taking a more abstract class on the basics of Object-Oriented programming.