How's that?

Women carry handbags; a man with a bag would raise more suspicion.

No, sorry, that isn't on in my view.

Please tell me the non progressive silicon valley company that this guy could be employed at? When the market you have skills in it pretty much political at one end I'm afraid that's not much of a choice.

Maybe you should read the memo as it was backed up by statistics from what I've read. Please, I'm eager to know what you consider 'dodgy pseudo science' from it? I'm eager to know that.

The person who wrote it considers themselves a classic liberal and the memo reads very mild to me. He even recommends actual approaches which he feels would more effectively increase female participation in the profession.

If this was an attack, it's a very mild one....The response has been aggressive.....It seems to me that even speaking reality gets you fired. I suspect the person knew the risk they were taking....hence the anonymity....But that didn't save him it appears.

Google are a disgrace.

Edited by Stirlingsays (08 Aug 2017 10.19am)

Would you be happy with a sixty year old firefighter carrying you out of a building?

'This is one of those pernicious disguised attacks on equality.'

What utter utter nonsense.

'the more a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it'. (Orwell)

I have zero problems with individuals working at professions they choose if they qualify. Did you actually read that memo?

No, Damore said you need to treat people as individuals.

So diversity is great but diversity of opinion isn't? This was an internal memo, not a press release.

You never answered my questions to you in my previous post....Again, what did this guy write that isn't backed up by scientific work? It's already been supported.

That's far more current than Mill, writing nearly a 150 years ago. Where were the studies that back up his view?

The memo's contentions have already had scientific backing. Here are quotes from scientists in this field.

Four scientists writing for Quillette magazine said the memo was scientifically accurate.

“The author of the Google essay on issues related to diversity gets nearly all of the science and its implications exactly right,” wrote Lee Jussim, a professor of social psychology at Rutgers University.

“For what it’s worth, I think that almost all of the Google memo’s empirical claims are scientifically accurate,” wrote Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychology professor at the University of New Mexico.

Professor David P. Schmitt, the former Chair of the Psychology Department at Bradley University, and Dr. Debra W. Soh, a Toronto-based writer who received her PhD in sexual neuroscience from the University of York, offered similar sentiments.

Why does Mill, writing nearly 150 years ago supersede modern research?

Edited by Stirlingsays (09 Aug 2017 9.57am)