http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/males-and-females-differ-... Literally five minutes dudes--addressed to the author's dismissal of the comments. There are significant structural differences in the functional areas of the brain due to gender, on average. Some of these areas are involved in spatial processing and long term/short term memory processing. Certainly there appears to be higher density in the areas of the prefrontal cortex associated with executive function in women--anecdotally n={about 5}, I've seen way better female project managers than men, but that could simply be the industries I'm associated with.
There's definitely structural differences that should have a huge impact on focus and attention as well as visual and spatial processing between men and women. It seems that a majority of the male based differences are in the midbrain where memory, emotion, reinforcement learning, etc are processed. How this translates to computer programming skill probably hasn't been explored because postmodernism and reasons, but I'm sure a few weeks with women and men coders in fMRI machines would show activation differences or not rather quickly.
You would think that people would be eager to identify these differences or to prove that it doesn't exist, but in my experience, everything that a scientist might be interested in that runs counter to the progressive narrative usually gets dismissed for shaky reasons.
Peer review? My first experience with peer review was with a world renowned physicist who was a friend of our dean's who was in town and taught a class and did research with us physics undergrads. I've seen just how non-rational and political the peer review system is which is why I avoided academia. Oh, and I have worked in cognitive research for several years so I kinda have some experience with this stuff.
Do I care? No. I've had fantastic women and men engineers as peers and reports and crappy women and men engineers as well. What I do care about is shoehorning people who may not have ability or passion into a career just to satisfy SJW virtue signalers. Honestly, weren't we all signed on to judging by the content of character and not outward appearance?