Freda's post to the dull thread?
I strongly disagree, it was most interesting. Women are at least as good as men and arguably better in tasks using fine motor control.

But it made me ponder why there are (since a few olympiads) separate competitions for men and women at the Olympic games in shooting and in bows. Before that, women did compete with men. The best Olympic result for a woman to my knowledge was a silver medal (with the same number of rings as the winner) for Margaret L. Murdock in 1976.

I see no reason at all for separate competitions in these sports any more. Separate competitions in riding have been given up long ago with very good reasons.

Other Olympic sports needing fine motor control skills in which historically women have competed with men are rowing (position of coxswain) and sailing.

In the very old Olympic games (about one century ago) women were not allowed to compete at all. That was of course only to their own best. In 1900, in the Paris games, shooting was still on live (at the start of the shooting) pigeons. Nothing for women of course.

Wolfgang (who was mostly not serious in the last paragraph)