Google's Diversity Chief Slams Worker Memo on Gender Inequality
- Employee argues workplace culture prevents honest discussion
- Dispute reflects women’s struggles in technology industry
A male Google employee wrote a memo slamming the company’s politically correct culture, saying that it ignores differences between the sexes. Bloomberg's David Westin and Caroline Hyde report on 'Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas.' (Source: Bloomberg)
Illustrating how Silicon Valley is grappling with the role of women in technology, Google’s new diversity chief forcefully pushed back against a male worker’s argument that the company has a “politically correct monoculture” that ignores differences between the sexes.
The engineer, in a memo that has gone viral, provided a detailed list of what he called possible “non-bias” causes for the under-representation of women in the industry, saying that the company’s left-leaning workplace culture prevents honest discussion of the issue. The document, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” was posted on Saturday by Gizmodo.