I'm just choosing not to 'go there'.

I agree men and women are different and I wish society would stop trying to masquerade that they aren't. It's annoying.

I had a discussion not too long ago about male/female adrenal responses and how that might affect jobs.

The outshoot of it was that, if it should be relevent to a job, measure the appropriate desired adrenal response needed for the job and then test applicants based on that adrenal response.

Some would cry - "That might exclude some people!"

Yes - yes it would. But it would exclude them based on a needed characteristic of the job - not based on their gender.

(Note that Male and Female adrenal responses are DIFFERENT but one is not 'better' then the other - Men have faster adrenal responses - much faster, but women have adrenal responses that are much longer - essentially 'sprinters' vs. 'long distance runners' if you will.)

There are plenty of other differences too - all part of our physiological variances but the key thing to keep in mind is that there are still and always exceptions. While the average man has more upper body strength than the average woman, there are exceptional women who are stronger than average and even above average men (although not exceptional men - the physiology just isn't there for that). Those realities mean that we need to base jobs that require strength as part of it on actual job needs so that if a strong woman applies and makes the grade she has the same chances as a man, is treated the same, paid the same etc.

We also need to watch for people abusing those standards to intentionally exclude people although caution is needed there too. Sometimes the standards need to be exceedingly high for practical purposes. Our local Fire Department has over 400 applicants for every opening - as such the standards they set, both physical and for training/expertise are amazingly high. They exclude almost everyone - of either gender - just to get the applicants down to a manageable number. That's not discrimination - it's setting the standards high to winnow down the applicant pool to only the absolute best. Lives are on the line and the applicant pool is huge. They can fully afford to be picky and should be as otherwise people may die.

In fairness to them all the standards that I've ever heard about do directly apply to the job.

Fairness, ethics and commonsense are all needed. Given our current political environment, there just isn't enough of any of those to go around.