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As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People
The Google memo, saying women aren't very into engineering, reached a similar conclusion.
Girls can code. Maybe fewer will choose to do so.
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Have you heard about the Google memo? Have you heard nothing but "Google memo" all week? James Damore, an engineer at Google, wrote a memo suggesting that maybe there weren’t so many women at Google because women are less interested in sitting around and staring at code all day. The internet erupted. James Damore is no longer working at Google.
As a woman working in the brotastic atmosphere of IT, I ultimately came to a conclusion similar to his. So I sympathize with him. Let me explain.