Gender stereotyping by a Googler
James Damore, a computer science engineer, became an overnight celebrity with his internal memo going viral over the social media. The memo that cost him his job at Google and also led him to a job offers in other organizations, without even applying. James’s memo opened up an international debate, where he opines that women are genetically not suitable for tech jobs or take up a leadership position and that the Google culture is discriminatory against people who weren’t women or who weren’t people of color. This 10-page memo came in after he attended a “private diversity summit” at Google. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, went on record to say the memo “Violates the code of conduct of Google and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace”. He, along with Google’s leadership team, lost no time, in firing James. Sunder Pichai also went on to quote “A […]