So a Google engineer spends 10 very careful pages tentatively putting forth the possible notion that, statistically speaking, women don’t do tech because, statistically speaking, women don’t like boring, tedious jobs that involve no human contact – resulting in said engineer getting fired because he “crossed the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes” and he “advanced incorrect assumptions about gender”.
Not that Google gave any explanation as to why his statements were “incorrect” or “harmful” or bothered to address his 10 pages of careful assertions.
Fast forward a bit, and now women are whining that they’re not getting equal pay, forcing Google to flail and cry (emphasis mine):
Google has fired back with two detailed blog posts, saying, “We were quite surprised when… the OFCCP accused us of not compensating women fairly.”
“We were taken aback by this assertion, which came without any supporting data or methodology…,” Google claims. “Our annual analysis shows no gender pay gap at Google.”
Google claims, “OFCCP has not taken sufficient steps to learn how our systems work and may not have accurately understood them.”
Sauce. Goose. Gander.
Eat it, Google.
Sounds like OFCCP has “advanced incorrect assumptions about Google” to me. At least that’s how Google sees it. Oh well that’s life in the fast lane and you’re correct…eat it Google.
I read the whole 10 page memo (it was really a quick read). Seemed to be a left leaning person who said the need to try some different things to increase diversity. But he got labeled “anti-diversity”