Lootifer wrote:Interesting. How long do you have?
I would hazard to guess it will take literally hundreds of thousands of years to overcome our evolutionary bias.
That bias may not be as strong as you think.
I am a rather petite female,
slightly stocky, but definitely not with big muscles or anything and yet... min my 20's, I was able to lift more, heft a pick for longer (and effectively) than 99% of the guys I worked with. (similar ages... not talking old farts here... lol).
Many of the real and true differences between men and women are not so obvious, they have more to do with how we just approach various problems and life. Whenever people try to make distinctions, they fail, partly becuase they tend to look at things from a more superficial and easy to measure way, like "can lift more". When what really matters is who can move the rock
better. Better might mean not lifting it at all, but instead rolling it, or even just finding a way to use it where it lays.
Even in sports, though very circumscribed, limited in scope, you see the anomolies-- the short basketball star, for example.