Making claims without specific citations does not count as a fact. It counts as a claim.
Generally yes, but not when a) it’s easy to see by stepping outside, like sky is blue or googling it http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/genderwomen/en/ b) When you have PhD in biology and claims are close to citation. Of course citation by itself doesn’t make it fact either if we are going to split hairs.
Regarding the rest of your reply — you succeeded in creating and defeating a straw man. You took what was mentioned in passing and ignored the rest of manifesto. Sea lioning is strong in you. I don’t even know what you mean by ‘reductive biological determinism’ if it means our biology determines our abilities, then yes it certainly does in many cases. I cannot birth baby or fly. If you mean some woman can achieve what some man can, nobody even argued that point, not an author nor I. Expecting all women to be exactly like men, when evidence of STEM graduates, sport separated events, studies I linked for you etc and attribute it all to “discrimination” only and force “affirmative action” it, that what he was against.
I don’t see, how women of Google is outraged by it by the way, was it news for them that Google aggressively hires them instead of equally qualified males under diverse initiative?
Do you have any facts that supports narrative that disparity in workforce is due to discrimination? Or you just subscribe to circular argument, we have discrimination as evidenced by disparity and we have disparity why? Because we have discrimination obviously. I hope you see how illogical that is.
