James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google

Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by TheAdamAndChe on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:59PM (#16100493)

Affirmative action is the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffer or have suffered from discrimination within a culture[1]. Google is an affirmative action employer[2]. If women are favored over men, then wouldn't it make sense that a less skilled woman has the potential of being selected over a more skilled man?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action

[2] https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by paulgb on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:16PM (#16100676)

I don't see any support for [2] in the page you linked (maybe because I am on mobile). There may have been efforts to recruit that were directed at women (e.g. sending employees to Grace Hopper), but ultimately the bar was the same for everyone.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by TheAdamAndChe on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:21PM (#16100708)

It's at the bottom of the page.

> Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by paulgb on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:37PM (#16100845)

I see it now. I believe that's something every major US Corp that sells to the federal government has to say: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-...

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by lifeformed on Monday January 08, 2018 @06:33PM (#16101983)

That's assuming that there's only a handful of people to pick from. But if your top choices are all top tier developers, then slicing it up by gender or ethnicity shouldn't make a difference.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by lurr on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:31PM (#16100799)

No. They could just be spending 3 times as much to recruit women, for example. They could have recruiters dedicated to finding women. They could be funding women in tech programs at many levels. etc...

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