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Agree with BCG1, It's the present day politically correct BS That doesn't allow society to have a rational conversation on how to solve for real world problems, to include the real problem of gender diversity. Instead, its replaced with Google PR bull shit lip service so they can check the box for "doing something about diversity" but not actually change anything.
I read the memo and I think it's laced with bigotry and prejudice. Like if a catholic priest talked about how little boys are molested because of how cute they are or some farcical reason, so we should have a real conversation and stop blaming the priests who molested them.
It was not anti-diversity. I read the memo and I didn't find anything offense (the guy tried to propose solutions and was far from sexist). I find it sad that google caved to PC. My 2 cents
I disagree. While the guy's comments weren't popular, the company does encourage open dialogue and has multiple online forums for it. Firing someone for stating their opinion will discourage future dialogue. I'm a woman who has worked in SV and think we need more engineers prompting dialogue like this and we just shut it down.
For instance, the memo said women suffered high rate of neuroticism. Sounds scandalous ? Turns out it's well documented: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2031866/
^ then debate with him in an open forthcoming and civil way. Firing him is "not OK".
And men tend to favor groupthink and obedience @BCG1, no one ever seems to call that out though. It's a huge danger to business and runs many companies into the ground. Intent is the key, when there is a bias people tend to only see data/research that supports their bias.
If you have a free speech policy you should abide by it...even if the author was misguided. Quality discourse can change his views, firing him for PR accomplished nothing except squelch free speech moving forward. Pretty surprised by google here. Punish one, by sacrificing their open culture, just so OP can feel like justice was served.
No of course you'd think so if you haven't been on the receiving end of inequality or discrimination. It's always easy to comment from behind the glass with dicks in your hands. Bravo!
In the cartoon world we live in, some auto shop in Podunk nebraska has a more open climate for debate than an assembly of some of the smartest people in the world.
The subject of his essay is irrelevant. He created an environment where people wouldn't want to work with him, and for that reason he hurts the efficiency of the org he works in. For that reason alone he deserved to be fired. He could have written this on Reddit/medium or plenty of other places, but an official google forum doesn't seem like the best place to write a 10 page memo about a sensitive topic like gender differences in the workplace.
I just want to add that I'm fairly certain OP hasn't read the full manifesto. Just another left leaning arm chair assassin who focuses on headlines only.
I applaud Google for firing this man. This idiot asserted that women are "naturally" less competent than men at software engineering, or that they aren't inclined towards programming due to inherent biological differences. First, it's blatantly untrue.
And second, women were the earliest programmers. Six female mathematicians created programs for the world's first fully electronic general-purpose computer (men didn't think it was an important job). Exclusively female mathematicians at NASA ("human computers") wrote computer programs to calculate trajectories for space missions using Fortran, the first high-level programming language. They also wrote code at various DoD research centers starting in the 1950s.
The high attrition by women in the field of software engineering (and STEM in general) is not due to incompetence, but instead, due to sexist attitudes and a suffocating culture of mansplaining and misogyny. It is not the job of women to "educate" men about this problem. We guys in STEM fields have to be the ones to step it up too and make our work environments more inclusive.
This is going to be a top thread soon
EY2 gotta agree on that. Firing him was not a diplomatic solution
BCG the guy made sexist comments. He tried to clean up things and be nice about it. But you cannot say things like women cannot or so not work well in high stress environments. He is generalizing and making assumptions about one group of people. When you write that way as if the information your proving about a group of people are known facts when we are all different.
It a just wrong and sexist. Yeah an I am a dude. I did not like what he said about women or men. He had a distorted view my opinion.
OP watched a movie and is now an expert....also if you are going to copy an NPR article word for word, don't leave out the pertinent qualifying phrase
"six female mathematicians who created programs for ***one of*** the world's first fully electronic general-purpose computers."
I just read the manifesto and while some opinions expressed by him could be unpopular, I don't find it offensive. He infact does raise some valid points, which merit further open and honest discussion, as opposed to stifling any voice which doesn't resonate with ur own. Unfortunate for Google to have fired him. They do live in an echo chamber.
Sad what society has become. Ironically, in the memo he/she even discussed the very real phenomenon in today's world where merely expressing a certain view is deemed offensive and causes those who disagree to literally shame you into silence instead of even for one second considering that there could be some truth (or at least a reasonable possibility of truth) to your opinion. How are silencing dissenting voices and creating a bubble of protection against perceived offenses going to prepare our youngsters for the world? In order to combat prejudices and other barriers, it would be wise to take an earnest look at them or at least encourage discussion. Instead it seems that anything less than policies of "less white males" will be treated with public shaming and labels of bigot and sexist. Truly sad
^everyone, we figured it out. It was goddamn mansplaining again!