The commonly accepted view is that women and men are equally good at math on average
Some googling informs me that there’s a gender gap on the math SAT and other standardized tests. It may be that you have in mind some way in which these tests don’t reflect a real gap in average math ability, but I think it’s more likely that you confused the data on math ability and the data on IQ. A .3 standard deviation gap would mean 62% of women are below the male average. I agree that this makes “most women are bad at math” an exaggeration, though more male spread means the numbers look worse the higher you set the bar.
The math gap is much larger in the United States than it is in Northern Europe. In general, gender inequality and poorer math performance by females are correlated. Moreover, over time, most of the gender gap has gone down. Most relevant study (although I do remember having reservations about some aspects of their methodology the last time I looked at that in detail, and I don’t unfortunately remember what they were.)
Some googling informs me that there’s a gender gap on the math SAT and other standardized tests. It may be that you have in mind some way in which these tests don’t reflect a real gap in average math ability, but I think it’s more likely that you confused the data on math ability and the data on IQ. A .3 standard deviation gap would mean 62% of women are below the male average. I agree that this makes “most women are bad at math” an exaggeration, though more male spread means the numbers look worse the higher you set the bar.
The math gap is much larger in the United States than it is in Northern Europe. In general, gender inequality and poorer math performance by females are correlated. Moreover, over time, most of the gender gap has gone down. Most relevant study (although I do remember having reservations about some aspects of their methodology the last time I looked at that in detail, and I don’t unfortunately remember what they were.)