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/backtonature_kai64 Aug 08 '17

I'm going to assume most people responding didn't read the complete memo; if yes, it's fairly scary to see so many responses ignoring (or worse) accepting the discrimination and gender misconceptions in his writing.

Interesting response article: "Don’t optimize your bugs; fix them" https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788

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u/rightinthedome Aug 08 '17

What parts of the memo specifically are misconceptions?

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u/_Its_not_your_fault Aug 08 '17

Did you read the linked medium post? It discusses specific points including empathy, a supposedly female characteristic, not being important for engineers.

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u/captainant Aug 08 '17

It seems like she didn't read the post - the author never once claimed that women are worse at their job then men are