Besides well-known intellectual deficiencies of women in certain areas (spacio-visual, etc.), especially at the high - and most important - end of the distribution, there is a significant gender-related difference in character traits.
Specifically, being faced with a choice or freedom vs. security, a women is much more likey to select security where a man would select freedom.
Also, women by nature are much more likely to uncritically depend on someone/something rather than take a risk and responcibility. That is quite natural and a product of evolution where female's and her child's life were more important for survival of the species, so such species tended to spread where males took risks and females took security measures, but the social implications of it are unsettling.
It's obvious that western civilisation prospered becasue of heigher degree of individual freedom and specifically through people taking risks. With more and more women taking part in politics - and comprising majority of the population, there is a natural trend towards more restrictive laws that impossibly try to protect everyone from everything - seat belts, product restrictions, FDA approvals, etc.
Once some level of comfort is reached, women become a stong force for slowing/reversing progress and restriction of freedom.
miko
