It is not that males are necessarily better than females at math, just the type of societies that existed. You have to understand the mind set of the people before modern times... women were considered dirty and stupid. Therefore, if a woman displayed any knowledge in the ways of mathematics, she was either shunned from any mathematical society or beaten. In fact, there was a Greek woman (whose name escapes me for the moment) who was an astounding mathematician. One day she was pulled off of her chariot by a rioting mob and killed her with clam shells- just because she was a mathematician. Then much of her work was burned. So, there were definitely many more women mathematicians that were lost in the volumes of time due to the blindness of man...