One of the first rules that scientists and analysts learn is OCCAM'S RAZOR. It means that if there are several interpretations to facts, take the simplest first.
But there's a rule that often plays havoc with Occam's Razor. This is VOLTAIRE'S DICTUM. It says that the human brain is unable-- not unwilling but physically unable -- to reach a conclusion that lowers the brain's owner income or self esteem.
The relevance here:
What Damore wrote was: Women have different abilities than men. From here on I paraphrase his words (about narrower standard deviation of intelligence distribution); but what it means is that there are far fewer foolish women than foolish men (hence only 5% of all prisoners worldwide are women), but also far fewer super intelligent women that super intelligent men (hence only 30 of 3,000 chess grand masters are women.)
Men are more extreme, for good or ill, women are more homogeneous. These are facts. But a female reader's brain won't let her assimilate it.