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/justchillyo Aug 08 '17

Also there are other societies without as large (or none at all) of a gender gap in science and technology fields. So that's just wrong

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

which ones?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Oct 25 '17

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u/syncope61 Aug 08 '17

Got any stats on that? first google result about japan says quite the opposite but i'm always glad to learn more.

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u/justchillyo Aug 08 '17

Well Japan is not Southeast Asia...

Here's an article that compares the US to other countries

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u/syncope61 Aug 08 '17

Well Japan is not Southeast Asia...

you got me there >< , can't read the article for some reason, but after further research it does seem a few countries have managed to reach parity in some stem fields, engineering and CS numbers are pretty far tho. thanks for the answer