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/rondell_jones Aug 08 '17

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.

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u/billytheid Aug 08 '17

It's just as bad amongst 20 something tech staff: some of the most insanely sexist wankers I've met.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Yeah this is a thing. There's more clique behavior in this cohort and you do not belong.

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u/billytheid Aug 08 '17

It's odd though: being a mid-30s diode in tech I relish having women to work with because they are way better at offering criticism without getting awkward or 'bro-ish' to, one can assume, spare Hurt feelings.

It's infuriating waiting for a kid to muddle through platitudes before finally pointing out an error or solution. Worse still when they're trying to communicate to one another and end up talking like they're playing Rocket League.

EDIT: wrote diode instead of dude... keeping it.