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>He worded it in a socially unaware way.

I don't think so:

"Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance). This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and to the lower number of women in high stress jobs."

Maybe if women were more agreeable they wouldn't have been so offended.

>>bluthr+(OP)
Agreeableness trumps Neuroticism IMHO. Neuroticism is a knee-jerk reaction that you cannot control without a lot of self-control. To expect an individual ranking high in Neuroticism to control themselves is to be blind to other's points of view. In short, it means that you do not have enough sensibility to understand and predict the reaction of others before they happen.

Agreeableness allows you to predict those reaction and plan accordingly.