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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by dguaraglia on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @08:48PM (#15024090)
This is another of the "facts" that Damore's memo mentions but there's no empirical proof for. Do you have any?
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by fche on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @09:06PM (#15024178)
Proof for what? Smaller number of available women? That's obvious. That if larger companies hire the best of them, the remaining supply/quality will shrink? That's obvious too.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by dguaraglia on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @09:28PM (#15024292)
No, that there's a hard number that Google recruiters are supposed to achieve (50% seems to what I've seen repeated around here.)

Does anyone have any actual proof that Google is aiming for 50% or to represent the general population 1-1?

Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by fche on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @01:29PM (#15029372)
It sounds like they kept meetings deliberately off-the-record, but then again here on https://www.google.com/diversity/index.html there's stuff like "we’re committed to making our workforce more reflective of the world we live in". Number goals are unlikely to be published for obvious liability reasons.