Gender roles and conformity exist only because of societal pressures

Okay so yes Differences in intelligence have long been a topic of debate, many researchers demonstrated no significant sex differences, while others have argued for greater intelligence for males. The split view between these researchers depended on the methodology. So instead of showing you a study you can just contradict with another study. The flaw in the studies you have given as that that they are mistaking IQ for general intelligence. When I say men have a higher IQ than women, you assume that what I mean is that men are smarter than women, and they are not, you and your sources are correct in saying that there is no prof or solid evidence pointing to a difference in general intelligence between the sexes. this I believe we can all agree on, however the g factor is a construct developed in psychometric investigations of cognitive abilities and human intelligence. YOUR sources say "males outperformed females on the factors Working Memory and Perceptual Organization, and females outperformed males on Perceptual Speed. These sex difference on the level of the first order common factors were however not attributable to sex differences in g." this is because mental skills from both genders are included in a G score. The male brain is characterized by systemizing tendencies (to use Baron-Cohen"s term) and mechanistic thinking (to use Crespi and Badcock"s term). "Systemizing" is the drive to analyze, explore, and construct a system. In contrast, the female brain is characterized by empathizing tendencies (to use Baron-Cohen"s term) or mentalistic thinking (to use Crespi and Badcock"s term). "Empathizing" is the drive to identify another person"s emotions and thoughts, and to respond to them with an appropriate emotion. Women tend to score as the medium in IQ tests because the mental talents they have limited uses for testing something like IQ, not to say they aren"t a smart but to say that women intelligence is not measured accurately because of the format of an IQ test; therefor limiting their mental resources and there for making them score at generally the same level. (forming a medium) Men tend to score higher or lower because the IQ test was meant for a male brain; therefore, not limiting the male"s mental skills which allows for a more accurate assessment of intellect. Resulting in men taking up the higher and lower score population. Men do, score higher and lower than women on IQ tests, not because of a difference in G but a difference in thinking patterns. Nobody says that men are better than women at math, science or engineering, men simply tend to dominate those areas because the thought patterns that males have are more applicable to the work force than women thought patterns. However, you claim that these differences between men and women were developed because of society? Well guess what, society didn"t tell women how to evolve, you didn"t, I didn"t, nobody did and nobody can. As TheShaun said "Our design does not reflect society, society reflects our design." (TheShaun stop stealing my lines go make fun of idiots somewhere else, it"s my turn XD) Our society was built based off the mental and physical advantages and disadvantages each gender had. Yes men and women are encouraged to do different things, but they are encouraged as a result of societies outlook on the two genders, our outlook on the two genders is biased on what science and experience has told us men have been successful at things women are less successful with so men are encouraged to do those things instead of women, yes that is society teaching gender roles but those gender roles have bean taught to society, we didn"t just make them up. In conclusion this is a simple argument of Nature vs Nurture And which is more responsible of us. This has an easy answer. In this situation the Nurture factor is that society raises us to believe in gender roles and the Nature factor is that the science that we have so far is in total support that male and female skills are useful for different positions in society. The reason this is easily Nature is because the Nurture factor in this situation is actually a product of Nature, we are being Nurtured to conform to what Nature has taught; therefore, no matter were you start, you will always be the result of society and society will always be the result of design and science has proven that there is a difference in design and you have admitted that there is a difference; therefore, there is a design; therefore, you are a result of design.