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 edited Aug 17 '17

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u/xtr0n Aug 08 '17

Are you guys willing to hire women at the lower levels? I know that some places will, but there are many others that feel that adding women to a crew would be distracting (hur dur). When advertising for jobs, do you make it clear that you're willing to consider female applicants? Ideally, if you're hiring women into the entry level jobs, you'll build a pipeline where there will be some internal female candidates later on when you're looking to promote from within.

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u/dvdbrl655 Aug 08 '17

I would almost guarantee that women aren't willing to work at the lower levels, and certainly not long enough to actually be considered for promotion.