Men compete more with each other in the operating room, generating twice as much conflict as women, a study by the primatologist Frans de Waal shows. Results are consistent with evolutionary approaches: competition between males is more intense.https://phys.org/news/2018-07-human-behavior-rooms-parallels-primate.html …
So there are intrinsic gender differences in aptitude for surgery, based on competitiveness? Do the differences disappear once you control for competitiveness, or are men less suitable then women in other ways?