“Nobody has yet come up with a satisfactory explanation of why in our culture sexual difference is synonymous with gender inequality”

Ms. Wilson, kindly, tell us what you mean by ‘sexual difference’ and ‘gender inequality’ so that I can proceed with the reading or your article.

Sexual difference - female or male

Gender - the social and cultural roles that are imposed on females and males based solely on biological difference

Gender inequality - inequalities that result from gender roles imposed according to sexual difference.

In short, gender up there, (brain) sex down there (between the legs.)
Cheers, Jennifer.

Perhaps the author should read this story, the story of someone born a male, but attempts were made to transform him into a female.

Didn't work.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/reimer/

As for equal gender representation on boards, why should there be?

It does definitely appear that the majority of women do not want to do outdoors work or work requiring much physical effort, they are not interested in mechanical, electrical or trade work, and they have minimal interest in innovation or developing new industry.

If they were foregin workers or someone seeking to immigrate into the country, no one would have them.

So why should there be equal representation on boards?

*In short, gender up there, (brain) sex down there (between the legs.)*

Ah Jennifer, but what is down there is driven by what is up there.
Neuroscience is showing us that there are indeed differences
between sterotypical male and female brains, influenced as they
are by different hormones. Yes, there are always exceptions.

The biggest inequality of all in our society today is of course sexual
power. Women hold it all.No wonder that there are so many
henpecked husbands out there!

I wonder is there gender roles for sheep, dogs, cats, birds, sea horses and snails? I'm all for not stopping people from doing things if they can do them, but some things are the way they are.

"No one has yet come up with a satisfactory explanation of why in our culture sexual difference is synonymous with gender inequality."

Jennifer, that strikes me as a piece of egregious deliberate ignorance of the bleeding obvious. Even with the great disadvantage of your education, you should still be able to see it. Come on. Stop playing dumb. What might be *one thing* that would make sexual difference synonymous with gender inequality? One thing that women do, that's not socially constructed, that is by nature sexual, and that men don't do?