Casting aspersions on colleagues is not cool. There is no 'science' to do this. The science of studying gender and racial differences does not lend itself to '

Casting aspersions on colleagues is not cool. There is no 'science' to do this. The science of studying gender and racial differences does not lend itself to 'easy conclusions' and generalizations and certainly not practical application or advocacy. Tomorrow a colleague could write a tome pointing to studies about male aggression and the risk of putting them in collaborative environments or about introverts unsuitability for certain roles and presume to advocate 'other roles' for them. This is beyond the pale. Cherry picking studies in a way they are not meant to applied in any real world scenario is a dangerous unscientific preoccupation of bigots and supremacists. The fact that you are making these conclusions not as an expert in the field trying to further knowledge but in a real world application context about your fellow workers in an act of extreme prejudice and hostility and completely compromises this individual and his memo. The biggest concern of this misguided memo is the level of support for this troubled individual. It appears women in the valley really have something to worry about. There exist all these men and colleagues who harbor deep doubts about their capabilities. This is alas what hostility looks like.