Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Women in Viral Memo

Re:Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant W... by droithomme on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:25PM (#20620348)

> Exactly two years ago today, another, much different memo, went internally viral at Google. That one was written by the now infamous James Damore, an engineer who wrote a 10,000-word, unscientific memo attempting to argue that women are naturally less disposed to be good engineers compared to men. The purpose of that memo was to get Google to scale back its diversity efforts.

That's not what actually happened.

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Re:Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant W... by ab_c on Monday August 05, 2019 @10:22PM (#20621512)

"unscientific"

Technically, yes what he said is unscientific in the sense that he didn't conduct a long-term study. However, the guy has a degree in molecular biology so it's not as if he's pulling shit out of thin air to justify his stance -- that's grossly misleading.

While I don't agree with everything he said, there's a lot that I feel is very fair. It's sad the media wrote him off as a misogynist. Misogynist don't write pages of suggestions on ways to encourage women into STEM and into leadership positions.

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