But if those attitudes changed, it wouldn&#x27;t mean that suddenly women would be able to deadlift as much as men.<p>Take a look at this chart: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exrx.net&#x2F;Testing&#x2F;WeightLifting&#x2F;DeadliftStandards.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exrx.net&#x2F;Testing&#x2F;WeightLifting&#x2F;DeadliftStandards....</a><p>Your deadlift of 220lbs puts you in the &quot;Advanced&quot; category assuming your body weight is somewhere in the middle. By comparison, I&#x27;m deadlifting 360lbs at 185lbs, and that&#x27;s not even close to &quot;Advanced&quot;, I&#x27;m well within the &quot;Intermediate&quot; category. For me to be considered advanced, I would have to lift 440lbs, literally twice what you&#x27;re lifting. That&#x27;s not a difference explained by psychology.<p>Besides, we can easily remove the factor you&#x27;re talking about: there are plenty of sports which don&#x27;t have the social factors you&#x27;re describing. There are tons of women who run, for example. In the 60 meter dash, the top male performer, Maurice Greene, finished in 6.39s, more than half a second faster than the top female performer, Irina Privalova, at 6.92s. A half second might not seem like a lot, but consider that Privalova&#x27;s time wouldn&#x27;t place her even in the top 25 of male atheletes. [1] Similarly, Paula Radcliffe&#x27;s 2:15:25 marathon record doesn&#x27;t wouldn&#x27;t put her even in the top 10 (I suspect there are hundreds of men whose personal record beats her time, but Wikipedia only shows the top 10).[2]<p>Do you really think Irina Privalova or Paula Radcliffe is just being actively helpless?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;60_metres#Top_25_performers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;60_metres#Top_25_performers</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Marathon#All-time_top_ten_athletes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Marathon#All-time_top_ten_athl...</a>