Ms. Soh focuses on the STEM preferences, but the James Damore piece seems to be more of a general diatribe against gender equality and the liberal forces that promote it.  I question his motivation for issuing this commentary and sending it around his company.

Is programming essentially a testosterone based pursuit? If we change the job description from software engineer to software designer, does that feminize the position enough to consider the possibility that women may be attracted to a position involving language and problem solving over mechanical construction?

Google may consider that success in the marketplace is about having a corporate culture that reflects the market and the consumers and not just whether the employees are the best STEM geeks to be found.