"In his note to employees, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said the offending memo had “clearly impacted our co-workers, some of whom are hurting” – thereby perpetuating the gender stereotype that women are more sensitive and fragile than men."

That gender stereotype was not helped by reports such as these:

"...great irony was that his mention of average women's traits, including lower stress tolerance, led several women to take a sick day due to the stress they experienced from the memo!"

"Kelly Ellis, a former software engineer at Google, said: "I know women who are actually taking sick days today" (to recuperate from the previous day's memo about women and sensitivity)".