Hi Health.
Hope you had a nice Shabbos.
I have to go with cinderella on this one.
While men are usually stronger in muscle, women are stronger and able to endure in the other ways.
I would also have to say your statement that childbirth is painful, is an understatement.
Being a man, I can only imagine the kind of pain women have to submit to during childbirth. It looks to be pretty insane, and I am not sure any man has something to compare other than if they stuck their finger in an electrical outlet, and kept it there a few hours, to say the least. lol
And while the example you give is no doubt true and valid, it cannot serve as a paradigm to prove that it is generally regarded that women are not only smarter, but they are stronger than men in many ways.