Silicon Valley’s new technocrats still excel in old-school sexism | John Naughton
by John Naughton from Technology | The Guardian on (#30DKK)
The furore caused by a Google engineer's comments about gender bias overlooks the more endemic problem of male chauvinism within the tech industry
A few months ago, a Google engineer named James Damore wrote an incendiary internal memo on a 12-hour flight to China. He had just attended a "diversity programme" run by his employer, which had clearly annoyed or disturbed him. "I heard things that I definitely disagreed with," he later told an interviewer. He said there was a lot of shaming at the programme. "They said 'No you can't say that, that's sexist" You can't do this"' There's just so much hypocrisy in a lot of the things that they're saying."
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