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Google fire man who claims that women are underrepresented because they are biologically different, not because of bias....

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Ok, there's a bit more to it than is in the headlines, but you can see the full "anti-diversity manifesto" here. It's quite a read!


My personal reading is this was written by someone well-meaning but extremely mis-led and confused about why tech companies need to address diversity. It's also full of conjecture and is unnecessarily divisive (constant references to "left" and "right").


Were they right to fire him? Or was he perfectly entitled to publish his thoughts, regardless of whether or not we (or his employer) like it? Any other thoughts on the manifesto? Was there a fair point buried somewhere in the ranting?




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    No I don't - for much a much more fickle group - the public! -)

     
    But don't you see all the argi-bargi of endless meaningless discussion and think "come on you guys, solve the blxxdy problem and move on"? I mean to say, the one about women in engineering is just about enough to make you weep. It shows no understanding of reality and that they would behave exactly the same as those holding the purse strings if they held them. That's human nature.

     
    It's interesting that Ms D'Lima says quote "I'm not sure whether you're agreeing ..., or disagreeing ...". I'm must have achieved my aim. I am just analysing the problem. As a person with and engineering background I don't anlyse a problem and agree or disagree, I just record the results of the analyis without, I hope, bias otherwise it may be a poor analysis. My agreemement or otherwise is irrelevant. Clearly no one has done that so far otherwise we would be way down the road of discussing how to change society (in my estimation). My aim and hope is that once the problem has been analysed then those far more able than I can find a solution. Although I may have a few words to throw into the discussion... if I can find the time :-)

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    No I don't - for much a much more fickle group - the public! -)

     
    But don't you see all the argi-bargi of endless meaningless discussion and think "come on you guys, solve the blxxdy problem and move on"? I mean to say, the one about women in engineering is just about enough to make you weep. It shows no understanding of reality and that they would behave exactly the same as those holding the purse strings if they held them. That's human nature.

     
    It's interesting that Ms D'Lima says quote "I'm not sure whether you're agreeing ..., or disagreeing ...". I'm must have achieved my aim. I am just analysing the problem. As a person with and engineering background I don't anlyse a problem and agree or disagree, I just record the results of the analyis without, I hope, bias otherwise it may be a poor analysis. My agreemement or otherwise is irrelevant. Clearly no one has done that so far otherwise we would be way down the road of discussing how to change society (in my estimation). My aim and hope is that once the problem has been analysed then those far more able than I can find a solution. Although I may have a few words to throw into the discussion... if I can find the time :-)

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