militarily... take a hike!!
“Intellectually..... equivalent...
militarily... take a hike!!”
Not quite equivalent. There are intellectual differences that tend to steer career choices. There are no gender barriers to keep women out of extremely specialized intellectual things like thermodynamics or theoretical physics but you won’t find women there.
Not that women can’t do it. They just don’t seem to like that sort of thing.
It has been proposed that differences on brain physiology is at the root why there are more male super genius individuals and more male idiots than women. The bell curve in women is taller with fewer at the extremes.