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Yeah that's the strawman that every woman-hater has been latching onto, completely ignoring this:

But it is not clear to me how such sex differences are relevant to the Google workplace. And even if sex differences in negative emotionality were relevant to occupational performance (e.g., not being able to handle stressful assignments), the size of these negative emotion sex differences is not very large (typically, ranging between “small” to “moderate” in statistical effect size terminology; accounting for less than 10% of the variance). So, using someone’s biological sex to essentialize an entire group of people’s personality would be like operating with an axe. Not precise enough to do much good, probably will cause a lot of harm. Moreover, men are more emotional than women in certain ways, too. Sex differences in emotion depend on the type of emotion, how it is measured, where it is expressed, when it is expressed, and lots of other contextual factors.

Like do you seriously think "men and women are equally good programmers" means "men and women are 100% atom-for-atom identical in every single way"? Honestly and seriously?

If you NEED to make such a big transformation to the argument you hear in order to justify your position, maybe your position is just a bit illogical and indefensible.
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