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RE: The 70-year Cognitive Puzzle That Still Divides The Sexes
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but it seems to be a test of basic spatial recognition. Males have been demonstrably shown to be more adept at these tasks, while women excel at social comprehension. This is why there is a strong divide between men and women in social sciences vs. hard sciences. Depending on the magnitude of the effect shown here versus the magnitude of the difference between such processing skills, this effect may simply be down to differing evolutionary roles. Men had to learn spaces and mechanics in order to hunt and design weaponry/tools. Women had to learn to teach children and socialize.
What you're saying is most probably, from what we know, part of the picture, but it's not the whole picture. For example women aren't just going to social fields cos they're more inclined, but also because someone (society) inclines them. As the short section where I wrote about math demonstrates, women are disencouraged from going into scientific fields, whereas men are encouraged. There are women who are leaps and bounds above me specifically at math, so encouraging a woman like that to go to the social sciences, while encouraging me to go to the sciences, would do a disservice both to her and to me and to our fields. We should do as much as we can to probe the specific talents of individuals rather than groups. But we shouldn't be blind to biology either.