I can't adequately box my argument into a Reddit comment, and you'll want sourced studies. The best I can do at the moment is tell you that they exist, and provide my own anecdotal experience.

There's a generational issue in society where gender norms have been pushed that guide girls towards the expected norms. Many girls who excel in sciences have been actively discouraged from pursuing hard maths and sciences. This has gotten better in the last 20 years (by region) but we haven't seen the end result yet. That will take another 15 years, as the walls evaporate.

My Computer Science courses in 2,001 were about 15% women. They had roughly the same success rate at landing professionally careers as the men, ratio wise. I've worked with some of them for top technology companies. That 15% is going up. Women are not superior to men in software, but they are absolutely not inferior.

The largest obstacle that women have faced in the last several decades is being told that this area is "not for girls". It turns out, once you stop telling girls things like that and start empowering them that they tend to rise to the same level as men in hard sciences.

This paper reinforces the gender roles. If I stood up and told my female coworkers "you're lucky that you're one of the smart ones" it would be patronizing, wrong, sexist, and create an unnecessary hostile work culture. I would be fired, and I would deserve it.