I think men are more practical than women. Women often pay attention to their family and their children while men always tend to their position in the society. That is to say, women and men are very difficult to compare like that. Maybe women are more genious than men to some certain extend.
Nowadays, both women and men play an important role in the society. For me, we can not evaluate which sex is more intellignet because there are many fields that people are interested in.

Even if men are considered more intelligent than women some credit should also go to women ,since it is said that "behind every successful man ther is a woman".

NO! Women are definately more intelligent than men. Women, on average have marginally higher intelligences than men. Men are essentially mutations. Thus they deviate from the norm and produce more extreme high achievers (and more extremely low achievers). Also many of the people with the 'genius' label, have other psychological problems which compensate. John Nash Schizophrenia, Isaac Newton and Einstein, Asperger's syndrome. Also, until the information age women were subordinated because of their lack of physical strength, which is no longer important (and has nothing to do with intellect) retarding their progress. Even now they often take the lions share of household tasks and bringing up the children. Often this is not because they cannot do as well as their husbands at other things, but because their husbands are not as good as they are at bringing up children, and this seems more important. Men's incompetence in this field has lead mother nature to provide women with instincts to stay home and care for their children. The fact that many men leave women who they have impregnated through lack of responsibility often means that women have to work earlier to provide for their children rather than continuing in post-graduate education.

The fact that women STILL obtain an equal to marginally higher average than men, despite the set-backs of years of subordination, which to a certain extent continues due to men's incompetence, demonstrates that women must clearly be more intelligent or AT LEAST more versatile in their capacity than men. This is without even taking into consideration the setbacks caused in conjunction with such genius such as Autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, pscychopathy etc. all of which have higher instances in men than in women