Google Engineer Fired or Sexist Memo Isn't a Hero

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

> On Aug 15, 2017, at 12:33 PM, John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu> wrote:
>
> Dave, thought your list might find this post interesting. John Horgan
>
> Google Engineer Fired for Sexist Memo Isn’t a Hero
>  
> There is nothing admirable about a white male arguing that white males are biologically more fit for jobs in tech.
>  
> I’m on vacation, trying to ignore the world’s madness, but I just spotted “Why I Was Fired by Google 
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-i-was-fired-by-google-1502481290?>” in The Wall Street Journal, by software 
> engineer James Damore, and I can’t let it pass. Damore was canned for a memo in which he attributes “the gender gap 
> in tech” to biological differences between men and women. 81 percent of Google’s employees are male 
> <https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-tech-biology-sexism>.
>  
> In his memo <https://everipedia.org/wiki/james-damore-1/>, Damore says females are on average less ambitious and more 
> prone to “neuroticism” than males and “have a stronger interest in people rather than things.” Damore claims these 
> male-female differences are “exactly what we would predict from an evolutionary psychology perspective.” That is, the 
> differences are innate, bred into us by natural selection...
> ​
> For more see https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/google-engineer-fired-for-sexist-memo-isnt-a-hero/ 
> <https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/google-engineer-fired-for-sexist-memo-isnt-a-hero/>




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