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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by Al-Khwarizmi on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @07:01PM (#15023524)
Damore presented evidence to support his claim that women are on average less able than men in areas relevant to engineering.

He didn't. He just claimed that they are on average less interested in those areas. There is no mention at all of ability in the memo, only in the manipulated press pieces.

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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by christinamltn on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:42AM (#15027344)
He did:

> I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by salvar on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @01:59AM (#15025250)
He did not state that women had a harder time leading than men? That seems like a mention of ability.
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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by yorwba on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:42AM (#15025661)
Google apparently already had a women-only program that was predicated on the assumption that women have a harder time leading than men. So it doesn't seem like Damore's claim was particularly unusual within Google.
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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by salvar on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:04AM (#15025744)
My comment was to refute the statement that Damore never mentioned ability in his memo.
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