Hardware design and R&D- Are women too soft, again?

What has women sifting wheat got to do with women baking hardware chips? In a recent web series on an iconic watch with a Made-in-India pride, there was an episode that zoomed in on women-skills in a specific way. When the engineering expert was walking around villages in South India, his eyes locked on the dexterity at which women could pick out minute stones in a huge pile of lentils or grains.