<story><title>Prof. of employment law: &apos;it may be illegal for Google to punish that engineer&apos;</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/08/07/it-may-be-illegal-for-google-to-punish-engineer-over-anti-diversity-memo-commentary.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wolfgangK</author><text>I hope that he also sues media outlets for slander. To sum things up :&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  - fairness &amp;amp; lack of prejudice wrt minorities&amp;#x2F;women : goal
  - minorities&amp;#x2F;women % in the workforce : metric
  - diversity hiring : https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Campbell%27s_law because https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Berkson%27s_paradox .
  - without diversity hiring, differences in women vs men applicants pools, which can be explained by differences in *distributions* of interests, have no impact on distribution of skills in the workforce
  - women are talented enough so that they just need to be *attracted* (e.g. better work&amp;#x2F;life balance) rather than pity-hired
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
This is my takeaway from the &amp;quot;screed&amp;quot;. How could it be framed as «anti-diversity», much less «alt-right» ?
How could saying that «women are, &lt;i&gt;on average&lt;/i&gt; more people-oriented and men are more thing-oriented» be framed as «women are inferior, biologically incapable of coding» ?
I hope that people get punished for such a dishonest character assassination !</text></comment>
<story><title>Prof. of employment law: &apos;it may be illegal for Google to punish that engineer&apos;</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/08/07/it-may-be-illegal-for-google-to-punish-engineer-over-anti-diversity-memo-commentary.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tim333</author><text>&amp;quot;We’re told by senior leadership that what we’re doing is both the morally and economically correct thing to do, but without evidence this is just veiled left ideology that can irreparably harm Google.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Seems to me that publishing a &amp;quot;manifesto&amp;quot; in a company saying the senior leadership are bozos is a reasonable grounds for firing.</text></comment>