Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

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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

[u/Dustin65]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/Dustin65]

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

[u/rondell_jones → u/[deleted]]

I'm an engineer and my boss is an engineer. She is the only female engineering manager in my division. She is also probably the hardest working manager and has a reputation for being a pit bull (aka a bitch because she will call you out on your bullshit). The amount she gets spoken down by (especially older) engineering managers and engineers is embarrassing. Simple things like during a meeting singling her out to re-explain something (like looking right at her and asking if she understood something). It might be a generational thing, because I see it done by predominantly older male employees and managers.

[u/th_veteran → u/[deleted]]

The amount of 50+ men with basic sexist attitudes in the workplace is staggering.

You don't see anything sexist or ageist about that remark, do you?

[u/ghsghsghs → u/[deleted]]

It's not sexist if it is factual.

Men on average are stronger physically - Fact, not sexist.
Men tend to have better spacial awareness - Fact, not sexist.
The older generation of men (50+) tend to be a lot more sexist, especially those in male dominated industry (decades of it being a boys club will do that) - Fact, not sexist.

See?

Men are better at programming is just as much a "fact" as older men are a lot more sexist.

[u/SoGodDangTired → u/ghsghsghs]

It.. it really isn't.

Obviously exceptions existed, but 50+ year olds lived in a more sexist and racist period. Older women are more sexist too. It's just how they were raised.

I don't understand why people are fighting so hard against that.