Posted on 08/05/2017 2:59:56 PM PDT by zzzz8
A software engineer’s 10-page screed against Google’s diversity initiatives is going viral inside the company, being shared on an internal meme network and Google+. The document’s existence was first reported by Motherboard, and Gizmodo has obtained it in full.
In the memo, which is the personal opinion of a male Google employee and is titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” the author argues that women are underrepresented in tech not because they face bias and discrimination in the workplace, but because of inherent psychological differences between men and women. “We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism,” he writes, going on to argue that Google’s educational programs for young women may be misguided.
The post comes as Google battles a wage discrimination investigation by the US Department of Labor, which has found that Google routinely pays women less than men in comparable roles.
Gizmodo has reached out to Google for comment on the memo and how the company is addressing employee concerns regarding its content. We will update this article if we hear back.
The text of the post is reproduced in full below, with some minor formatting modifications. Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
John the Savage is upsetting google’s Brave New World...
This should be fun.
Or...
Somebody slipped a red pill in googles cafeteria.
One of the best and most accurate things that I’ve read recently.
Well reasoned, logical, and persuasive without being political.
The writer is most positively definitely without a doubt NOT a liberal arts major.
I, as have others, have seen the effcts of liberal non-think in the workplace.
And the libs have left their stench in the obviously non qualified idiots even showing up in the STEM arena.
My spouse is a brilliant woman, MENSA qualified and an an excellent programmer. She is also a published fantasy and SF writer. So, woman can and will continue to make it. And, we know the quota token babies...you reading this, Dorkbama?
Ha! Here’s hoping!
Bookmark
Duh!
Bookmarked for further reading and reflection to be able to synthesize my own thoughts in this same arena. I work at a school so you can imagine the diversity/inclusion/rainbow crap that flows the “diversity council” that is chaired by an assistant superintendent that was a diversity hire a decade ago into a job she couldn’t do then and who has failed upward continually since then.
I had to sit through her diversity presentation yesterday as part of the back-to-school event that happens every August. In order to preserve my job by not running out screaming during the presentation, my mind free-wheeled on such historical items as “e pluribus Unum” and potential math approaches to have a logic-driven discussion. I’m ever so glad to have retirement in my sights in about 3-4 years since I know there is little hope of being able to persuade TPTB on this subject. It may only become a post on FR or a yet-to-be developed blog.
Left Biases
·Compassion for the weak
·Disparities are due to injustices
·Humans are inherently cooperative
·Change is good (unstable)
·Open
·Idealist
Right Biases
·Respect for the strong/authority
·Disparities are natural and just
·Humans are inherently competitive
·Change is dangerous (stable)
·Closed
·Pragmatic
Got that far and moving on...
Probably planted by Google itself.
Larry Summers got tossed from Harvard for that. “In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
He (I presume it’s a man who wrote this. Is my bias showing?) makes a lot of great points.
The comments after the article look like mostly left-wing emotional whiners and/or those who can’t compete on a level playing field. The article is documented with footnotes. The responses are all about *feelings*.
Yes, there are inherent psychological differences for sure. I discovered this when I was teaching the parts of speech to 4th graders some years ago. Boys did not want to learn definitions of the parts of speech. When I decided to show them on the overhead projector how they could diagram sentences by hanging adjectives off nouns and adverbs off verbs, they loved it! I had at least one diagramming activity a week, in order to keep the boys’ English grades up.
Males are basically builders. Females are basically nurturers.
Mrs. Frederickson?
Is that you?
I’m sorry that I told you a gerund was a small, furry rodent.
I promise I’ll finally figure out what a predicate nominative is!
Can I sit down now?
I am a liberal arts major who is tired being judged by people who think I’m stupid and liberal.
Probably planted by Google itself.
Possibly, but not likely since is well written and thorough.
LOL
“I am a liberal arts major who is tired being judged by people who think I’m stupid and liberal.”
I am a mechanical engineer with 25 years of experience. I am a little quirky so I read tons of science and I do keep up my math and science skills for fun. I have no doubt that even now I can probably pass any college level calc-1 through 3, diffEQ, statistics, statics, dynamics, or any similar class final exam right now this second with no preparation. I even still tutor anything from algebra to advanced calculus to whatever kids of friends need it.
So with that little bit of intro, I will say that I am also a little OCD about certain subjects such as, for example, global warming, and I can honestly say that I have probably read at least one hour of science (real science) about that subject every day since the late 90’s. Whether I am at home, or traveling for work in Indiana, or North Carolina, or Oman, or Thailand, or wherever, I read each and every single day. I know every scientist by name and by photo on both sides. I know the controversies, I know the science on both sides, I know the tech, the breakthroughs, the junk, and the gold, and I intimately know 20 years worth of the drama.
So the point of this little rant, is that there is not a single thing on this planet that makes spikes my blood pressure and makes my teeth itch more that when some whiny millenial (or genXer for that matter) who couldn’t solve an addition problem to escape a wet paper bag and who’s last science book had the word “political” in the title, gives me that smug condescending look through their horned rimmed glasses and calls me a f*^^&E science denier and to learn some f*&^%#$@ science.
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