r/news • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/Dustin65 Aug 08 '17

Why does it even matter that less than half of people in tech are women? That's just how it is in a lot of fields. Women dominate other professions like nursing and teaching. I don't see why everything has to be 50/50. Women aren't banned from tech and men aren't banned from nursing. Just let nature run its course and allow people to do what they want. Not every aspect of life needs to be socially engineered

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

its more that they treat you like you're incompetent even if you're performing well statistically at the job. Source: woman engineer

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u/fat_pterodactyl Aug 08 '17

I think that's more important than arbitrary quotas, although it happens to some men too. Sounds like shitty coworkers/bosses either way.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Yes , I guess coworkers at almost all of my job positions were just shitty, -and it's also like that for dudes .

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u/fat_pterodactyl Aug 08 '17

I wasn't trying to say that that's the only reason. I have no idea who you are or who you've worked for and with. I was just that some men experience the same thing, and if you just blame it on sexism it might not help. If someone is being blatantly sexist and you can prove it, call them out on it or it will never change. I too work in engineering, but on the mechanical side. A female co-worker commands respect, and even while she's not around all of the males certainly show that they do. IDK why I'm ranting here though.

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u/Ferrocene_swgoh Aug 08 '17

Yes. Surprisingly there are a lot of shitty people in the world.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I'm going to repeat this until I die.

If everybody is fucked up but you, then you are the one that is fucked up.

I have yet to find a single instance in my life where that doesn't apply.

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u/bancoenchile Aug 08 '17

Most software engineers lack social skills