This is a statement about women in general, a substantiated, cited and refutable one. It is not a statement about his colleagues who (probably) have a different distribution of traits than the general population. 40% of Americans are obese, that doesn't mean 40% of your colleagues are, are be surprised if the obesity rate of google is the same as the general population.
> Make tech and leadership less stressful. Google already partly does this with its many stress reduction courses and benefits.
This was a suggestion on how to make the population of google more representative of the population in general.
2. Google could theoretically double their employment pool and enjoy the side effects of that, like lower wages. That's good for Google if it doesn't backfire.
Edit - I love it when they go through your history and even down vote the posts they agree with.
It also says something about the company that he couldn't get this done or believed it cannot be solved via internal processes.
https://basicgestalt.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/press-f-for-ja... does seem to try very hard to get a meme going that displays Danielle Brown as pure evil.
> The memo does not contain any such suggestion, so the CEO either didn't read it or read his own (or someone elses) interpretations into it.
Actually, it does.
Women on average are more prone to anxiety
Make tech and leadership less stressful. Google already partly does this with its many stress reduction courses and benefits.
which suggests that women are less able to handle stressful jobs. Of course Damore's suggestion is to make jobs at Google less stressful, but if someone wants to feel outraged at that, they absolutely can.