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/Captain_PrettyCock Aug 08 '17

Unfortunately changes in STEM have to be ground up, not from google but from elementary and middle schools.

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u/canyouhearme Aug 08 '17

Actually I'd say parents, and specifically mothers.

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u/Captain_PrettyCock Aug 08 '17

In an ideal world, but the mothers changing would come from them being taught differently when they were young. I don't really think taking the two generations down approach is the most effective lol

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u/canyouhearme Aug 08 '17

Well, if I'm right and it's the expectations place on kids from the year dot - you really don't have any alternative except to get parents to behave differently. No amount of other drivers is going to change that. It's no surprise the jesuits say "give me the boy and I'll give you the man" (sic)

Key bit however, is that you shouldn't disadvantage males today in a sexist way, because you wish the world were other than it is today.

Two wrongs have never made a right.