> I don’t think a man sending a “do x or I’ll quit” email would be met with the same response.

Ugh, this is a bit infuriating to me. I think there are a ton of parallels in this whole situation to the James Damore memo issue, and IIRC Damore was fired pretty quickly: Google employee sends out an email to a wide distribution, and while that email may make some valid points, the overall tone of the post guarantees it to be a net negative to the company, and then when the employee is let go, they bitch and moan about how there is some sort of conspiracy in the company against them.

I believe firing Damore was the right decision and I believe Google was right to accept Gebru's resignation.