He got fired for the other bits, the casually implying 40% of the workforce were, onr average, somehow inferior and less suited to their work than men, and for not taking it down but stirring the pot, when he realised that he'd wildly misjudged the reaction people would have to it.
Good for you. That's a consistent philosophy. Something to be discussed and debated.
But this guy just got fired for this discussion, which puts google in the evil camp for me.