“Everyone is in favor of free speech… but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.” ― Winston Churchill
This is not news, despite the implication contained in “researchers are now taking notice”
Here’s a TOC reference from 2006. The book referenced was published in 2002. The information therein has apparently only just come to the attention of the University of Wisconsin and the University of California, Berkeley.
A Reuters story quoted the lead author of a study in Science magazine, Janet Hyde, as saying that “there aren’t gender differences anymore in math performance” that could account for the pre-eminence of men in strongly quantitative careers such as math and physics.