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Chitchat Google Fires Engineer For Saying Men Are Better Than Women In Tech And Leadership

JohnTan

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By David Ingram and Ishita Palli

(Reuters) - Internet giant Google has fired the male engineer at the center of an uproar in Silicon Valley over the past week after he authored an internal memo asserting there are biological causes behind gender inequality in the tech industry.

James Damore, the engineer who wrote the memo, confirmed his dismissal, saying in an email to Reuters on Monday that he had been fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes".

Damore said he was exploring all possible legal remedies, and that before being fired, he had submitted a charge to the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) accusing Google upper management of trying to shame him into silence.

"It's illegal to retaliate against an NLRB charge," he wrote in the email.

Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc based in Mountain View, Calif., said it could not talk about individual employee cases.

Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai told employees in a note on Monday that portions of the anti-diversity memo "violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace," according to a copy of the note seen by Reuters.

It was not immediately clear what legal authority Damore could try to invoke. Non-union or "at will" employees, such as most tech workers, can be fired in the United States for a wide array of reasons that have nothing to do with performance.

The U.S. National Labor Relations Act guarantees workers, whether they are in a union or not, the right to engage in "concerted activities" for their "mutual aid or protection".

Damore, though, would likely face an uphill fight to seek that protection based on his memo, said Alison Morantz, a Stanford University law professor with expertise in labor law.

"It's going to be a hard sell that this activity was either concerted or for mutual aid or protection, rather than simply venting or pitting one group of workers against the others, which does not sound very mutual," Morantz said.

Debate over the treatment of women in the male-dominated tech industry has raged for months. Claims of persistent sexual harassment in the ranks of Uber Technologies Inc and of several venture capital firms led to management shakeups.

Management at the largest tech firms, including Google, have publicly committed to diversifying their workforces, although the percentage of women in engineering and management roles remains low at many companies.

The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating whether Google has unlawfully paid women less than men. The company has denied the charges.

Damore asserted in his 3,000-word document that circulated inside the company last week that "Google's left bias has created a politically correct monoculture" which prevented honest discussion of diversity.

The engineer, who has a doctoral degree in systems biology from Harvard University, according to his LinkedIn page, attacked the idea that gender diversity should be a goal.

"The distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and ... these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership," Damore wrote in the memo.

He quickly received support in conservative media outlets. On Breitbart News, once run by Steve Bannon, now chief strategist to President Donald Trump, commentators overnight discussed whether to boycott Google and switch to services such as Microsoft Corp's Bing.

Google's vice president of diversity, Danielle Brown, sent a memo in response to the furor over the weekend, saying the engineer's essay "advanced incorrect assumptions about gender".

(Reporting by David Ingram in SAN FRANCISCO and Ishita Palli in BENGALURU; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier and Christopher Cushing)

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/google-fires-employee-behind-anti-diversity-memo-031001929--finance.html
 

borom

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If they do not " advocate " so called diversity and inclusion , how would all these minorities and female be working at Google?.

The push to be politically correct and appoint females/minorities to top management is often the first step towards decline for a company-they will lose out to companies that hire purely based on merit.-so what if its all male or whites as long as they are the best for the job.

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak , Paul Allen ,Bill Gates , Larry Page, Sergey Brin,-name me one female or indian/paki, amongst them
 

Devil Within

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With such idiot leading Google, this will be the start of downfall of Google. Instead of employing capable people to work in the organisation, this idiot is preoccupied with filling up vacancies with idiots because of political correct diversity.
 

tanwahtiu

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最毒妇人心 woman hv venonous heart and no place in coroorstion leadership.

They failed miserably like qing empress cixi shd proceed chinese opium to hunilate the west and US soils with opium start the Yellow Peril revenge and returns of Chinese weakth back to China.

If they did just that Japan will fall too and US will beade poir nation in last 100 years and China is made great again
 

johnny333

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Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak , Paul Allen ,Bill Gates , Larry Page, Sergey Brin,-name me one female or indian/paki, amongst them


Ho Ching :biggrin:
An example of pussy power where ability is not important.

The problem nowadays is that women no longer are satisfied in pulling the strings behind the scenes e.g. the Gecko. They want to be seen in charge & controlling things.
 

eatshitndie

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there were and are some women with far more brain power in stem subjects and out-of-this-world algorithmic consciousness than many men that i know of. for example, the persian math genius at stanford who just passed away from a bout of cancer; the genius inventor and dreamer at ilumina; the doctor-researcher at ucsf; the brains behind 23andme, the real decoder of the dna double helix, the rocket scientists of nasa, etc.
 

johnny333

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Of course men are better. They can rape.


I don't think "rape" applies to Sporeans because Sporean males are for the most very law abiding & up tight. Over here we have the womens charter, so guys know where they stand.

Especially because LKY was the number one supporter of feminism. However it was for selfish reasons. He wanted more working digits in Spore & had nothing to do with equality etc.

Today we can see the results of LKY's policies: his son, daughter in law, the SPG syndrome, the greying of the population, .... etc. Hope the Sporeans who voted for him are happy.
 
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