>like a few WNBA players might be able to give NBA players a tough challenge
this is not true at all. Maybe a WNBA could score a few points here and there. But even the worst NBA player is better than the best WNBA because of the biological difference between men and women. The women's national hockey team and soccer team scrimmage regularly against 16 boys and get beat by those boys. The difference is magnitude when a full grown man actually did scrimmage against them.
But to relate to the central topic, the biological difference between men and women in programming is insignificant.