Google fires employee behind anti-diversity memo
Alphabet Inc's Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo that
ascribed gender inequality in the technology industry to biological
differences.
According to Reuters, James Damore, the engineer who wrote the memo, confirmed his dismissal saying
that he had been fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes," in an email to
Reuters on Monday.
Damore said he is exploring all possible legal remedies.
Google said it could not talk about individual employee cases.
"Distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part
due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don't see
equal representation of women in tech and leadership," James wrote in an
internal company memo last week.
"Portions of the memo violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by
advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace," Google Chief Executive
Sundar Pichai said in an internal email viewed by Reuters on Monday.
The memo stoked a heated debate over treatment of women in the male-dominated
Silicon Valley that has boiled for months following sexual harassment scandals
at Uber Technologies Inc and several venture capital firms.
Google's vice president of diversity, Danielle Brown, sent a memo in response
to the furor, saying the engineer's essay "advanced incorrect assumptions about
gender."
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