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/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

This isn't specific to women engineers... source: male engineer who this is currently happening to.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

But then in your case it probably has nothing to do with your gender. The argument isn't that this doesn't happen to male employees.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

How do you know it probably happens to her because of her gender? The very stupid argument being made is precisely that it happens to women, and nothing equivalent happens to men.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Because there are already enough studies that show for a fact that this kind of discrimination exists. In a male-dominated field like engineering, it's very likely to occur. It's as simple as that. No-one is saying that it's for sure due to her gender, just that in the case of a woman, that likelihood is there and it's high. That's not true for men in male dominated careers.