Something that's been increasingly on my mind: new ideas happen by making new connections on existing concepts. But that means you need to time to both explore many disparate idea spaces and the idle time to explore the connections.
Women don't have that time to tinker. Idle time to play, to waste, to ponder.
It starts as girls, socialized for care work that has few boundaries and can fill any open space, and it continues as they get married (or even just in relationships) and start to take on the care work of running a home and families.
(Meanwhile, boys and men have social constructs that preserve this play - sports, "man caves", video games...)
And it gets worse with kids - the data overwhelming shows that even when there is division of labor with a partner, women end up with the work that is more frequent and time sensitive (meals, registrations, pick-ups), while men take on the less frequent, done on their time (garbage, finances, maintenance). Worse, because women are the point person on all of the information and the logistics, they always have to be available, in case they're needed.
And what it means is that ultimately, women never are in control of their own time.... never have 4 hour stretches to just ponder or tinker or pursue something of no explicit worth.
If women don't have that, we don't have the conditions for innovation. For new ideas, for following red threads.
And thus, we're great for consumption, not for innovation.
That, I believe is one of the biggest things we're not talking about and has massive implications on how the future plays out.