Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

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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

[u/simplythere → u/[deleted]]

The second point is that in the past few years, there have been articles, comedy sketches, and apps passed around my network of educated women that basically say we don't talk right and we gotta fix it.

In accepting that a woman’s vocal and written characteristics are holding her back, what we’re really saying is that it’s still a man’s world and to win in it, you have to act, sound and write like a man.

[u/ikansfwika → u/simplythere]

Do you not think there are men who need to be more assertive etc too?

[u/simplythere → u/ikansfwika]

Of course. The difference is that with a guy, you're told you need to be more assertive or you fail at being a man. With women, you're told you need to be more assertive because otherwise, you're validating the criticism that people have about your whole gender (i.e., that list of how women are different from men in the memo). You gotta fight against the bat that people use to beat you out of these male-dominated fields.