But to go too far the other way and insist that men and women are fundamentally different psychologically neglects the far greater degree to which we are the same and can result in a loss of shared humanity and individuality in our thinking.
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Damore's overall point was that gender imbalances in tech might be the result of several factors, differing m/f interests being the most concrete, and that concentrating on systemic sexism as the one-and-only possible cause was therefore never going to work.
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So, of the three factors - ability, motivation, opportunity - is it only motivation damore says is causing disparity in career choice? Does this theory also apply to disparity among different races? google has a CS programs for teens/youths. that's not just focusing on sexism.
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No, he was critiquing policies trying to increase the number of women in tech because they focussed exclusively on sexism and ignored all other factors. He was trying to reintroduce a range of other factors into the discussion. Race wasn't the subject so he didn't address it.
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As a private company, what kind of policies does google have in place to increase # of women in tech? What are those policies exactly?!?
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Its policies seem to focus on identifying systemic/unconscious sexism and eradicating it, the expectation being that when this is achieved, the workforce will become 50/50 m/f.
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It's hard to believe it's google's official goal of diversity policy to achieve 50/50 gender ratio in tech on national level. I think the 50/50 thing was brought up by some random employee he was arguing with during the training program.
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You may be right: I've just had a scan through Google's public-facing diversity stuff & it's all aspirations and buzzwords rather than hard targets. What it doesn't show, of course, is the actual nitty gritty of the internal conversation that Damore was exposed to.
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The guy signed up for a VOLUNTARY diversity class.
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