Right, I didn't mean to imply it was settled science, just that it was more than an anecdotal just-so story.
EDIT: Hold on, did you even read the links that you shared? Neither of them dispute the difference in preference/skill at different forms of navigation between genders. They just dispute the point that it's something that's genetically inherent (a point that nobody in this comment thread made). There's no need to immediately map everything you read to the closest political controversy and then draw the battle lines.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/tu-ssm072012...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-008-9448-9