Then you should hold women to higher standards without excluding them completely.
So, historically this is somewhat similar to what happened—if a woman managed to get some sort of advocate / ally, she had limited access to the scientific / mathematical world as a scientist or mathematician. (Getting access to that world by hosting a salon was the typical path women would take, but that would put them much more in a support role.) But it had clear inefficiencies—Emmy Noether was unable to get a professorship in Germany, for example, and then even in America taught at a women’s college, despite being a clearly first-rate mathematician.
One partial solution is to have some procedure by which Noether is declared an honorary man, and then gets full access. It is interesting to try to figure out how much of the distance this would cross between how things actually were and the ideal case, for varying strength of filtering. One can also imagine this smoothly progressing from a minor, reversible change to the ideal case, but because of that one can also see the slippery slope arguments that would have defeated it (since probably someone thought of this at the time).
(Whenever this subject comes up and we talk about people who managed to get around restrictions, it’s probably also important to talk about people who couldn’t get around those restrictions, not because of their ability but because of the economics or power dynamics involved. Noether had trouble getting paid for doing math, but it’s cheap to do math; Jennie Cobb could find jobs flying planes but it’s not cheap to go to space.)
So, historically this is somewhat similar to what happened—if a woman managed to get some sort of advocate / ally, she had limited access to the scientific / mathematical world as a scientist or mathematician. (Getting access to that world by hosting a salon was the typical path women would take, but that would put them much more in a support role.) But it had clear inefficiencies—Emmy Noether was unable to get a professorship in Germany, for example, and then even in America taught at a women’s college, despite being a clearly first-rate mathematician.
One partial solution is to have some procedure by which Noether is declared an honorary man, and then gets full access. It is interesting to try to figure out how much of the distance this would cross between how things actually were and the ideal case, for varying strength of filtering. One can also imagine this smoothly progressing from a minor, reversible change to the ideal case, but because of that one can also see the slippery slope arguments that would have defeated it (since probably someone thought of this at the time).
(Whenever this subject comes up and we talk about people who managed to get around restrictions, it’s probably also important to talk about people who couldn’t get around those restrictions, not because of their ability but because of the economics or power dynamics involved. Noether had trouble getting paid for doing math, but it’s cheap to do math; Jennie Cobb could find jobs flying planes but it’s not cheap to go to space.)