These days, saying men and women are not equal could lead to experiencing extreme backlash that is ironically as discriminating as easily offended people claim that statement to be. No matter how offensive that may sound though, it is just the simple truth one could not totally say as wrong or illogical. Why? Because there are natural AKA biological causes to the reasons why this equality just does not seem to add up for everyone.
Does size matter?
Take the brain for starters. Men have bigger brains than women, but that does not really mean the former is smarter than the latter. Brain size does not really matter, but the size of hippocampus--a brain part responsible for memory--does. Women have bigger hippocampi, and according to my Biopsychology class, a larger hippocampus boosts a person's long-term memory. Therefore it could mean that women have it in them to conquer the fields of various careers where memory is strongly needed.
However, the same gender holds more cases than men when it comes to Alzheimer's Disease which is a progressive disease that slowly destroys one's memory. In my class, we have discussed the statistics and factors involved in why women are more at risk when it comes to this disease. We have gathered that the women who recently experience this disease are usually part of the generation that had women staying at home most of the time while the men of the household worked usually in a corporate setting.
Now, as these women stayed at home most of the time, they did not really get to exercise their memory in their days. They were more into cleaning the house, preparing the needs of the family, cooking, gardening, etc., thus memory-sharpening activities like perhaps thinking about solutions to business problems or logical discourses about philosophical and political theories remained an almost completely exclusive thing for men.
These days, fortunately, women have begun to conquer the corporate setting, academic world, medical field, politics, the court of law, etc. Perhaps in the next years, there would be less women suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. Until then, everyone regardless of gender is advised to exercise their memory. Try memorizing the capitals of all the countries in the world, that's a good one!
Gray and white matter though
The brain is obviously a processor, and women and men have two different ways of processing information that show on their performance in various tasks. You see, according to scientists, men use nearly seven times more gray matter for activity while women use ten times more white matter.
Gray matter areas of the brain process information and action in a way that it is responsible for just how men tend to not show much interest or sensitivity to their surroundings while deeply working on a certain task may it be work-related or just a game. This is why in so many movies, men in corporate setting seem cold to their partners making it look like the women are objectified when in fact, it is just a natural way of men to handle workload; nothing personal, ladies.
White matter on the other hand works cooler though (sorry, boys). It is responsible for bridging the gray matter to other processing centers making everything work at once. This is why women seem to have so much time--multi-tasking career, motherhood, pampering of oneself, and attending to the needs of a significant other.
Men are task-focused while women are multi-taskers (not necessarily bad at focus), so either gender you pick for any job will do--both amazing but not equally as each side holds its own specialty.
Then a woman's intuition...
The hippocampus again strikes with its amazing characteristics as we move on to explaining why women have this signature intuition underestimated by so many people when it actually is greater than you think it is. The size of the hippocampus in women's brains is related to just how women tend to absorb more sensorial information as in to and from ALL FIVE SENSES. This way, women are able to connect a variety of information to form conclusions or decisions, however since this sensorial information also tags along emotional holds, some women still bend for the irrationality of many cases as undeniably noticed in conventional intimate relationships between a man and a woman you see in media.
Men on the other hand do not have that thing of being able to connect almost everything to everything, thus they carefully deliver statements (you see it in male politicians for example or a man trying to make up with a darling who probably snapped at him or something) and speak less than women who have so much to say due to their absorbed information and their strong connection to their speech. Men do not have weak bridges between their thoughts or collected information and speech. However, because of that, they manage to set a sort of balance opposite women--maintaining formality when they speak when women could be triggered emotionally to speak informally and directly from emotions, and men could also be a big part in rationalizing things in a lover's quarrel to prevent it from becoming a drama.
When it comes to that female intuition, people mostly men tend to undermine its power in an ironic reason--that it actually works. I mean we have seen it in real-life stories produced in media where women start doubting their men until the accusations turn out to be true despite how the men discredit the women's thoughts. However, socio-cultural factors like merely being influenced by the media or the environment to think unnecessary thoughts lead women to having intuitions that are flawed and simply illogical that these cheating allegations are not always right, I mean there are always other things like the man committing a crime or hiding something big a deal...
What I have to say
There are so many biological facts that tell us which things we're good at or not. It is up to us to limit ourselves to that as long as the choice makes us happy, and of course it is also transcendent of our characters to go beyond those facts--succeed in making something out of them, and not denying or being ashamed of them in the process. That way I believe the society will live in harmony and peace. Simple as that..