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My read doesn't see them as very different messages but rather complementary. "Maybe women can do math and science perfectly well but they just don’t like to." Maybe they don't like to because of societal expectations. Or as Eccles says "my own opinion is that these differences reflect, at least to some extent, inaccurate stereotypes about physical sciences and engineering." Why do those difference exist? Why do different expectations exist? How did they come to be? When I read the original piece I see discussion that offers answers to those questions. I don't see it ignoring that those expectations exist, and I don't see it arguing those expectations are fair or reasonable or good.