It is true that political correctness seems to have an edge over science in the media.  It is also true that this individual at Google was attempting to play corporate politics with science, and corporations do not, in general, take kindly to underlings behaving in that way.

The truth is more complex.  It is true that women and men are biologically different and on average have different propensities and skills.  It is also true that many men can and do excel at skills associated with women, and likewise many women excel at skills associated with men.  Since HR departments under capitalist cost pressure seek shortcuts through categorization and underhanded discrimination, there is an inherent unfairness in the system.  There is also a very serious inequity in the fact that work associated with women is severely underpaid in our society compared to work associated with men.  For these reasons, I stand with Google on this question, although perhaps not for the same reasons.