[russelluresti]

Regarding the "is it okay to fire this engineer" argument the author is making - here's what I'd ask the author. If you were managing the team this person was on, would you feel comfortable placing a female engineer on the team to work with him knowing the he fundamentally believes women are inadequate engineers?

That answer should be "No."

By that alone, that engineer has created a toxic team environment.

You can't put a female engineer on his team, he can't work across teams with other female engineers, he shouldn't be interviewing potential female engineers given his obvious bias against them, etc.

If this isn't a reason to fire someone - what is?

[SamReidHughes]

"knowing the he fundamentally believes women are inadequate engineers?"

He doesn't believe that at all, and I'd like to hear why you think he does.

[bassman9000]

You've clearly misrepresented his views, and probably haven't read the thing at all. His point is against positive discrimination trying to even what he perceives is an statistical reality: less women apply for the job for biological reasons.

The fact that there are less women applying doesn't mean you can't find one suitable for the job, and one that's better than any other candidate applying for it.