From her personal perspective and that of vicariously raising a daughter, she agrees that females tend to have certain seemingly innate preferences. However (like me) she does not believe that these preferences limit the potential of an individual, but they do provide insight into why the distribution of professions is skewed between the sexes for several fields (both in the favor of males or females depending on the field). Ill have to ask her opinion about the quora piece, but in my opinion there were a few red flags, and for a scientist the tone was not very objective and carried more than a hint of personal bias.
"That said, the argument in the document is, overall, despicable trash." < not scientific
"what appears to be a covert alt-right agenda" < this shows both a misunderstanding of the alt-right and the memo author, who hold two distinct systems of belief (in the author's memo IIRC he claims to be a classic liberal).
"based on extremely weak evidence" < prove it?
"completely fails to understand the current state of research" < prove it?
"makes repugnant attacks on compassion and empathy" < not scientific
"paradoxically insists that authoritarianism be treated as a valid moral dimension, whilst firmly rejecting any diversity-motivated strategy that might remotely approach it." < what?
Makes sense, the answer was pretty hostile. I told my mom about the incident, and her first question was: "someone leaked the paper isn't that a privacy concern?" So I also have some anecdata about a woman not being concerned about the content. Overall though i think the paper is still pretty bad for a lot of reasons!