Seeing Differently - Sex-based Advantages

The articles we read for class suggested that certain groups - in the reading, specifically women - have an advantage in seeing the world objectively.  While I do not agree with the articles' reasoning, I do think that sex-based advantages exist, and that it would be a mistake to attempt to erase these from existence.

For example, many people are outraged by the rarity of female engineers and mathematicians.  Less well-known, but still just as marked, is the rarity of male clothing designers and decorators.  While some of this employment inequality is certainly societal, some of it may be biologically based.  Research has suggested that, due to mental structures, men have a tendency to be better than women at mathematics (although this is far from a rule, of course; many women are very good at math, and many men are very bad) and women, due to optical structures, tend to have better colour perception than men (although, again, this is not universal.  Some men have excellent colour perception, and some women have a lot of difficulty distinguishing colours) - women really do see differently from men.  These tendencies skew various careers in favour of one gender or another.

Due to this, I think that efforts to balance careers by gender - trying to force various career workforces to be composed of 50% and 50% men (or a little less of each, allowing for non-binary people) - ignores the fact that there really are sex-based differences, and would probably result in an overall less skilled workforce, and potential employees would be excluded on the grounds of their genders.  Nor, however, do I think that employers should base their employee choosing on assumptions about which gender will be better at the particular job they need to do - this would also result in a less skilled workforce, as most sex-based tendencies are not all that strong, and have many exceptions.  Instead, I think that employers should evaluate people based on their individual abilities.