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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by fvdessen on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:53AM (#14956122)
A friend works at the European Commission, where there is a strict 50/50 male/female requirement for all hires and all positions. Apparently it is causing problems because too many women refuse to be promoted in management. So they don't have enough managers to start new projects.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by mattmanser on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:12AM (#14956559)
Is this true, what citations do you have?

You've just cited an anecdote to try and counter mountains of scientific research.

There could be all sorts of nefarious stuff going on. Could he have been refused a promotion and now blames women? What's the back story? Has he gone on record? Is there a real problem or is a misogynistic manager using it as an excuse to him to cover his own incompetence?

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by fvdessen on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:40AM (#14956744)
Apparently the matter came when some women started to complain that they had been pressured into accepting management positions, didn't like the added stress, but had no possibility to move to other positions due to manager shortages.

And yes it is an anecdote, so no there's no citations, but most posts in this discussion don't cite citations either.

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