It is precisely in sport that boundaries are explored, though in narrow areas. And many professions (for example, programmers) require a significant deviation from the average in abilities. Women are just less likely to have a sufficient level of such deviation.

Join my colleague. I work in IT and know two female programmers from whom, with my little experience, I would like to learn. The solutions are cooler than the ideal, with a huge reserve of reliability and protection from the fool. And I know hundreds of two programmers-colleagues, who were undoubtedly raised by a bunch of wild taburets... Women are forced to prove in IT that they came here to make a cool product, and make it, and men are half artists and unrecognized geniuses with curved hands...